Papers by NIAT Computer Education
The Development and Utilization of I_smart_keeper for the Learner's Smart Phone Control
Journal of the Korean Association of Information Education, 2013
The Analysis of Features of Project Based Learning in Smart Learning Environment
Journal of the Korean Association of Information Education, 2013
Participatory Educational research, 2016
Comparison of the Effects of Robotics Education to Programming Education Using Meta-Analysis
Journal of Korea Association of Information Education, 2014
Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Programming Education using Educational Programming Languages
Journal of Korea Association of Information Education, 2014
A Study on the Achievement Goals of Computer Programming for Elementary students
Journal of Korea Association of Information Education, 2014
Computational Thinking 기반의 초등학교 동아리 활동용 프로그래밍 교육 교재의 개발
Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 2015
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
Today the number of universities equipped with learning management system is increasing, however ... more Today the number of universities equipped with learning management system is increasing, however its potential cannot be used as it was intended. Edmodo is one of the learning management system that can be used to support social aspect of learning. Also, effective use of Edmodo like learning management systems needs to be studied over more to achieve better integration. Recognizing attitudes of the students towards this kind of supplementary tool in a higher education institution ensure quality and success. The purpose of this study was to investigate what the students' attitude towards Edmodo learning management system and to determine its accomplishment. Fifty college students in an "Introduction to Computer" course for pre-service teachers participated in the study. The author collected data through interviews and document analysis. Researcher interviewed with 10 of the students after the course and reviewed the students' posts on Edmodo. Interview records and document analysis on Edmodo posts were used to increase in depth understanding about students' attitude and accomplishment of Edmodo use as a supplementary tool. The results of these qualitative data collected via interviews revealed that students had a positive attitude towards Edmodo, and they thought that it is a good tool to improve students' learning opportunities through active participation and communication. They want to be active in classroom and they want to develop a warm relationship with instructors by means of this kind of learning management tools.
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
In recent, numerous attempts, approaches, and models related to the technology integration proces... more In recent, numerous attempts, approaches, and models related to the technology integration process are introduced. In those models, generally the teachers are located at the center of the process. Thus, it is important to choose a technology integration model in order to prepare the teachers for the technology integration, enable them to use the current and new technologies, intensify their belief related to new teaching technologies, and eliminate the barriers they may encounter during this process. In this context, the Systems-Based Mentoring Model comes into prominence at the point of resolving the problems that the teachers encounter in the learning environments. In the model, technology leadership is adopted as the main approach to the professional development of the teachers. It is stated that technology leader could play a supportive role against various barriers which the teachers are willing to integrate the technology (time, attitude, access, culture, professional development, etc.) and various strategies are presented in order to create a vision for technology integration, modelling the use of technology and training leader teachers. In the model, the teachers pass throughout various stages and they are encouraged to utilize the technology. The final objective of the model is to perform the technology integration through evaluating the current resources in schools and establish an integrated culture within the system which is supported by the teachers and the school administrators. It is important that supporting teachers by the experts for them to realize the technology integration transformation. Accordingly, the Systems-Based Mentoring Model has an importance of emphasizing the importance of technology leaders in encouraging and supporting the teachers during the integration process to reveal the roles of those leaders that should take over.
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
In this study, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between the attitudes of science educa... more In this study, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between the attitudes of science education teachers towards technology and teaching styles. Correlational survey research was used. The sample of the study consists of 102 science education teachers (male=48, female=54) working in different schools in Amasya province of Turkey. In this study, "Technology Attitude Scale" developed by Yavuz and Coşkun (2008) and "Teaching Style Scale" developed by Grasha (1996) were used to collect the data. Frequencies and percentiles were used for descriptive data analysis and t-test and pearson correlation were used for inferential data analysis. According to the descriptive results, expert and delegator teaching styles are found high and their formal authority, personal model and facilitator teaching styles are found at medium level. The inferential results of the study indicated that there is a positive correlation between the participants' technology attitude and teaching style. It was observed that there is a positive correlation between the attitudes towards technology and expert, formal authority, personal model, facilitator and delegator teaching styles. This study was only carried out in Amasya city center. However, other similar studies can be conducted in different regions or for other disciplines so that the obtained results can be compared.
스크래치 프로그래밍이 예비교사에게 미치는 영향 : 컴퓨팅 사고 및 블룸의 텍사노미 활용 평가
Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 2015
컴퓨팅 사고 프레임워크 기반 방과후 스크래치 팀프로젝트 경험의 분석
Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 2014
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
Primary school curriculum in Turkish educational system has recently been revised based upon the ... more Primary school curriculum in Turkish educational system has recently been revised based upon the basic principles of constructivism. During this process, the role of teachers and students, the teaching and learning processes, and the classroom environment have been redefined. This study has been designed to develop a Computer Education Curriculum Scale (CECS) in order to assess attitudes of primary school teachers towards the new curriculum and to determine and compare opinions of teachers on the implementation and effectiveness of the new curriculum. For this purpose, a 29-item Likert-type Computer Education Curriculum Scale was developed and administrated to 61 teachers working at primary schools from various cities of Turkey, who voluntarily participated in the study. And all participants serve in public schools, and have at least three years of experience as computer education and technology teacher. For data collection process, an online form of instrument was developed and collected data from participants by sharing it through online forms. As a result of statistical analyses on the survey data, 5 subscales were determined. These subscales are named as recognition of the new curriculum, course structure changes, identification of the teaching environment, application of the new curriculum, and role and contribution of teachers. Cronbach's alpha value of the whole instrument is 0.75.
전통적 수업과 플립러닝 수업의 언어 상호작용 비교 분석
Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 2015
A Study on Curriculum of Information Subject for Information Concept in Elementary and Middle School
Journal of Korea Association of Information Education, 2014
Study on the Achievement Goals and Teaching-Learning Methods of ‘Problem Solving' Topic of Informatics Subject
Journal of Korea Association of Information Education, 2014
Design and Implementation of Plant’s Life Cycle Educational Application
Journal of the Korean Association of Information Education, 2013
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
Conducting research studies pertaining to effective and efficient use of online learning environm... more Conducting research studies pertaining to effective and efficient use of online learning environments, about which there are findings in the national and international literature indicating that they are commonly used, is important to improve efficiency of distance education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the usability of an online learning environment used for synchronous distance education in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction dimensions; to determine usability problems; and to propose solutions regarding these problems. The participants of this study are undergraduate students studying in teacher training programs. Five of them are female and five of them are male. It was remarkable during the selection of the participants that they have never used this system before or they rarely used it. The usability study was conducted through assigning authentic tasks to the participants in the online learning environment and digitally recording their performance on these tasks. In the current study, user-based approach, which is one of the usability approaches, was used. Within the study, the participants were assigned 10 tasks to be completed on the system so as to measure the effectiveness and efficiency levels of the system. The usability of the system was investigated by determining how much time was spent while performing the tasks, the number of the mistakes done, and the number of the participants completed the tasks successfully. According to the participants' completion status of the tasks, 4 participants could not complete only third and fourth tasks and as for the other tasks, all participants completed them all. In addition, it is observed that the participants made mistakes while performing the third task. The result of the system usability scale, which was distributed to the participants after the completion of the tasks, was calculated as 50,75 out of 100. In conclusion, this study revealed that there is a problem on the distance education system in terms of usability.
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
In this study, we administrated dynamic geometry activities which provide students opportunities ... more In this study, we administrated dynamic geometry activities which provide students opportunities to explore and estimate geometric figures to connect measurement estimation with geometry. The aim of the study is to investigate effects of using dynamic geometry activities on eighth graders' achievement levels and estimation performances in triangles. The study was designed a quantitative research design. A pretestposttest experimental study was employed to investigate using dynamic geometry activities on eighth grade students' achievement level and estimation performance in triangles. Participants were 63 eighth graders. The participants' ages vary between 13 and 14 years. Since the school is a public school, it contains students at nearly every socioeconomic level. Experimental group consists of 32 students and comparison group consists of 31 students. Dynamic geometry supported instruction and traditional instruction methods were used in experimental and comparison groups, respectively. The results revealed that teaching triangles with instruction supported by dynamic geometry activities increased eighth graders' performance in triangles. In addition, the instruction supported by dynamic geometry activities had significant effects on eighth graders' estimation performances in triangles. Using dynamic geometry activities provides students experiences about conceptual bases of the relations in triangles. Therefore, students who take a dynamic geometry instruction make better estimations than those who did not take.
Participatory Educational Research, 2015
In recent years, programming has been seen as a promising career with great earning potential. Ra... more In recent years, programming has been seen as a promising career with great earning potential. Rapid growth and use of computer technology give further emphasis to programming. Therefore, faculties open programming courses ranging from introductory to advanced levels. Primary and secondary schools also started to include programming courses in their curriculum. However, in the literature, it has been widely accepted that learning to program is a challenging task for students. Studies conducted on programming education show that significant number of students fail the programming course or get low grades. Of the reasons why students have problems in programming, necessity to possess variety of knowledge while dealing with the programming exercises is mentioned most in the research. These are syntactic, conceptual and strategic knowledge. Other reasons involve lack of motivation, lack of skills required for the programming, lack of mathematical knowledge and unfamiliarity with the programming courses. This is a literature review study that discusses learning difficulties of students and visual technologies used in programming courses to overcome problems mentioned above. This study examines technologies such as Scratch, Alice, Blockly, Jeliot and Ville. The properties of these technologies, how they can be used in programming and results of research studying the effectiveness of these technologies are also discussed
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