Dongil Kim

Seoul National University | SNU · Department of Education

This study focused on the concept of decent work from the perception of counseling interns in South Korea. To achieve this, the concept mapping methodology was employed. The study comprised 16 participants, all of whom were counseling interns for second-degree certificates, and sought to find out the characteristics of decent work through the analy...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of intervention using graphic organizers on the cognitive and affective improvement of students with intellectual disability (ID), with learning disability (LD), without disability, and at-risk learners in Korea. A total of 49 peer-reviewed journals and dissertations for the last 20 years were included for c...

Introduction Expressive Writing (EW) is an intervention that focuses on individuals’ writing down their thoughts and feelings about trauma or stressful events. Meta-analyses on EW studies have confirmed that EW has a positive effect. However, the heterogeneity of studies is high, so many studies have investigated boundary conditions and moderators....

Introduction Women still being a minority in engineering majors, they are reported to face discriminatory treatment in a collegiate environment. “Chilly climate,” referring to such a sexist environment, may have a negative impact on women’s mental health, academics, and careers. But, what exactly is it that female students in engineering perceive a...

Objective Rapid changes in post-COVID-19 higher education have increased students’ academic stress. This study focused on graduate students’ academic stress in South Korea and compared the results for Korean graduate students and those for international graduate students. Method Using the online survey results, the study verified the relationships...

Background: Cancer is a life-threatening disease in Korean women. Female cancer patients in Korea have reported poor physical functioning and psychological distress after diagnosis. However, some patients experience post-traumatic growth (PTG), which includes positive feelings and changes. Objective: The main purpose of this study was to examine th...

Introduction This study investigated the moderating effects of resilience on the relationship between academic stress and school adjustment among Korean adolescents. We examined the moderating effect for the total scores of school adjustment and the two subscales of school adjustment (academic adjustment and general school adjustment). Methods Dat...

The study examined the efficacy of reading intervention based on the Response to Intervention implementation (RTI) with public elementary school students and students from childcare centers in Gyeonggi province of South Korea. After the institution-wide screening and selecting process, reading intervention programs were provided at either Tier 2 or...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors of individualized interventions for students with dyslexia and reading difficulties, investigating the applicability through the text mining analysis of the teachers’ observation worksheets. Method: The observation worksheets of nine teachers who instructed 18 students with dyslexia and stu...

This study aims to establish basic vocabulary for reading instruction for students with learning difficulties in grades 1-6 of elementary school. For this purpose, data analysis was used for all vocabulary from 32 Korean textbooks from 1st grade to 6th grade of elementary school. First, each word in the textbook is substituted into a basic form to...

This study analyzes the eye tracking characteristics associated with the reading ability of elementary school students with learning difficulties by using the LPA(latent profile analysis). A total of 32 elementary school students in S city were classified based on the results of the reading test. Eye tracking characteristics of each latent group we...

International youths’ global competences have gained their importance around the globe, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Korea. Through pre and post surveys from the participants of the ASEAN-Korea Youth Summit program, this study aimed to investigate global leadership-related competences in the domains of (a) “under...

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an educational model for improving social-emotional competences of all students and a long-term education program connecting school, home, and community. Although there has been active research to establish evidence-based practice (EBP) of SEL programs worldwide, the quality of SEL intervention studies which is an...

This study was conducted to confirm whether behavior monitoring, which has been frequently used as a therapeutic intervention in the traditional addiction domain, can change behavior in problematic gaming. 102 college students who were game players participated in the study and were divided into an experimental group, a comparison group, and a cont...

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education in Korea introduced a distance education system to each level of school. Still the academic achievement gap between low and high achievers continues to increase. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of writing programs based on the writing process and distance education for the w...

Introduction Although prior studies have supported the effectiveness of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) on addressing social, emotional, behavioral, and academic challenges faced by youth at-risk, educators using MTSS often do not consider contextual factors which may also influence youth at-risk and the interventions targeting them. This st...

With the emergence of a new concept called ‘Internet Gaming Disorder’ in DSM-5 and ICD-11, related research is underway around the globe. However, not enough literature on Internet gaming addiction has considered the diversity in game genres. Internet gaming addiction may take on a different form according to the particular characteristics of a gam...

Within Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations, South Korea has the highest suicide rate for which immediate prevention measures are sought including effective therapeutic counseling interventions. As such, the present study explored and examined experienced South Korean counselors' perception of therapeutic interventio...

Data-based instruction (DBI) is an ongoing process to utilize students’ data for determining when and how to intensify intervention. It is an educational approach that is suggested as effective to enhance achievements of struggling learners, particularly for those who did not respond to intensive intervention in usual ways. In Korea, DBI was introd...

Introduction: Globally, more people are spending time on the Internet and gaming since the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Consequently, concerns about developing behavioral addiction of adolescents have been raised. Such risk could be greater for adolescents in South Korea where the majority of adolescents have access to the I...

The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) has been growing worldwide. ELLs are at risk for reading disabilities due to dual difficulties with linguistic and cultural factors. This raises the need for finding practical and efficient reading interventions for ELLs to improve their literacy development and English reading skills. The purpose of t...

The purpose of this study is to grasp changes of reading intervention, which is in the era of the fourth industrial evolution, were accelerated by COVID-19 by utilizing patent analysis and word cloud. In KIPRIS and WISDOMAIN, patent documents collection procedures were conducted through searching by essential keywords. As a result, 69 patent docume...

The purpose of this study was to analyse online newspaper articles on students with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in order to identify related social phenomena to derive implications for inclusive education. Such study has traditionally practised through content analysis and/or discourse analysis manually, which is prone to subjective interpretat...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the heightened risk of school closures and mental disorders has made adolescents particularly vulnerable to developing internet gaming disorder (IGD). There have been reports of increased time spent playing games on the internet among adolescents during the pandemic, and the risk of developing IGD may be...

The purpose of this study is to examine the current status and the applicability of mobile applications in regard to teaching both reading and writing for dyslexic students. For this purpose, we analyze the current status of mobile applications for reading and writing education released in Korea, then we analyze the experience of instructors who ha...

This study describes a successful effort to provide virtual support group counseling to international students in a university in South Korea. Overall development process of the program is provided, including assessment interviews, consultation, pilot study, program implementation and final evaluations. Additionally, practical issues regarding onli...

This study aims to develop a tool for determining the employment service for people with disabilities; consisting of 68 questions in six sub-areas of three steps, and to validate it through a nationwide sample survey. To this end, the questions were reorganized through a focus group interview (FGI) and the consensus process is based on the question...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of smart education interventions for at-risk learners by using meta-analysis method. Method: The present study collected group design studies sought of smart education for at-risk learners from 2011 to 2020. Total 17 pretest-posttest control group design studies were included, al...

The present study is designed to examine college professors’ perception of classroom disability support services. A survey questionnaire was developed to measure college professors’ perception of three areas including: 1) expanding higher education opportunities for students with disabilities, 2) types of classroom disability support services, and...

The purpose of this study is to examine and identify effective variables related to single-subject reading interventions for the struggling readers. This study conducted meta-analysis of 84 single-subject research articles of which 54 were published in Korean and 30 were published in English. Utilizing the Improvement Rate Difference (IRD), a total...

The purpose of this study is to analyze online news coverage on students with developmental disabilities (DD) and to understand frequently arising social conflicts and controversies regarding special and inclusive education for the purpose of facilitating more inclusive culture. To this end, this study collected 15,616 online news coverage articles...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the current situation and problems of Korean language education institutions in Overseas and to establish fundamental data for the research and the policy support for these institutions. To achieve this purpose, we selected 52 journal articles in Korea published from 2009 to 2018 by applying three inclusion c...

This study e xamined the Q-matrix validation for a vocabulary test in order to diagnose students in 3rd grade using cognitive diagnostic model. For developing a vocabulary test, ten content experts extracted attributes related to vocabulary ability from the review of textbooks and literatures about vocabulary ability. After then, 15 experts coded i...

Objectives: This study investigated the challenges of young cross-cultural individuals (CCIs) through the cultural homelessness (CH) framework. Methods: Through a survey of 151 CCIs, the study empirically examined the relationship between CH and psychological well-being (PWB), as well as the moderating role of emotional clarity (EC). Results: Resul...