Minsu Ha

Stony Brook University | Stony Brook · Center for Science and Mathematics Education

This study aims to examine latent classes of teachers that are classified according to their emotions and intention to use automated computer scoring system using artificial intelligence. The differences between each latent class in terms of familiarity of artificial intelligence, usefulness and perceived risk of an automated computer scoring syst...

To effectively employ inquiry-based learning to enhance students’ inquiry practices and encourage them to think and act like scientists, science teachers must have a deeper understanding of the factors that influence scientific research and attitudes about scientist practice. This research contains the experience of two postdoctoral researchers in...

Teaching the theory of evolution has often faced various challenges, including teachers’ internal conflict between the theory of evolution and their personal religious beliefs. This multiple case study examined the perceptions of and approaches to teaching evolution of six Indonesian Muslim biology teachers who were working in three different teach...

There has been the growing concern about excessive numbers of false-positive results published in the scientific literature. Cognitive bias plays a considerable role in triggering false findings that involve indirect and unwitting self-deception by scientists. This study considers the sociocultural differences in cognitive bias between Korean and I...

The exploration of career values can motivate and inspire young people, and help them achieve career success. The current study assesses the effect of sociocultural background on adolescents' career value among 951 Indonesian and 1,242 Korean secondary school students. Latent class analysis results suggest that participants can be grouped into five...

Scientific reasoning ability is essential to get developed in the current digital age, particularly in the process of judgement and decision-making in complex problems. Few studies have conducted an in-depth exploration of scientific reasoning ability, especially in relation to the confidence level and gender. The scientific reasoning ability of In...

The Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) has been extensively used in science education research for more than two decades. This study examines the fairness of MATE items based on religious convictions and academic majors. The multidimensional item response theory and differential item functioning analyses were run on data collec...

This study aimed to develop an automated computer scoring system (ACSS) incorporating a Korean spell checker to assess students’ constructed responses and to check the efficacy of this system. To accomplish this, we examined the performance of automatic spelling correction in reporting and correcting spelling errors, the interaction of gender and g...

The STEM field faces challenges related to uncertainties about the number and composition of skilled workforce. Measuring STEM career motivation (STEM-CM) of students at an early grade is crucial to improve the quality of science learning and to engage more students in STEM fields. This study focuses on the gender and academic level issues related...

In the globalisation era, engaging youth in science and technology is a joint responsibility across nations. This study examined the effects of Global Korean Science Program (GKSP) on 608 Indonesian middle school students’ attitudes towards science. Their science attitudes were assessed before and after the programme with Behaviour, Related Attitud...

Genetics as a core concept of life science is essential for understanding biology. Examining genetics understanding among biology majors is becoming important since they must necessarily achieve some level of genetics understanding to advance their career. This study compares Indonesian biology majors’ genetics understanding with previously publish...

The conception of racial categories from a biological perspective is unconsciously embedded in the individual's cognition. This is true even among university students majoring in biology and medicine. Even though students have never learned about "race" explicitly in formal biology class, they are highly likely to implicitly construct, and hold bio...

This study has been conducted to identify the types and longitudinal changes in the career values of students in science core school. Data collected from 174 students in science core school were analyzed using 11 career value items. First, this study found that there are three types of career value shown in students in science core schools. Second,...

The purpose of this study is to explore the degree of complexity, difficulty, fun, and willingness to solve problem-solving problems for prospective teachers in real life. In particular, as the complexity of the problem increased, the responses of prospective teachers were explored. 409 pre-service teachers participated in this study. The results o...

This study attempted to explore the pre-service biology teachers' perceptions on objectivity, focusing on the format of the images. In particular, this study focused on the perception of objectivity based on three kinds of format of image which are representative image in biological science , drawing, photographs, and image with expert interpretati...

Metacognitive ability is enormously important for improving students’ learning performance. However, overconfidence bias may hinder students’ metacognition abilities. Therefore, in this study, we conducted an intervention to reduce or debias overconfidence among students using the KAAR (knowledge, awareness, action, and reflection) model. Ninety In...

Indonesia is a religious country that values local wisdom and customs. Although the characteristics of the Indonesian people may provide novel insight into and distinguished views on the theory of evolution by natural selection, few studies have explored how Indonesians view the theory of biological evolution. Thus, this study aimed to examine the...

This study attempted to understand the characteristics of images of scientific experiments represented and consumed on YouTube, a representative of today's new media. In particular, this paper analyzes the case studies of YouTube's hydrogen peroxide decomposition experiment based on Baudrillard's theory of Simulation and Simulacra, which discusses...

Even though the concept of species is central in biology, the history of species concept and the existence of different species concepts are rarely discussed in biology classroom. This is unfortunate, as teachers could use the plurality of species concepts to enrich discussion in the classroom. Therefore, knowing the students’ perception of species...

Abstract The primary purpose of the current study is to identify the differences between Indonesian and Korean high school students with regard to science learning orientations based on the inter-correlation between conceptions of, approach to and self-efficacy in learning science. A total of 1241 Indonesian and Korean high school students (609 Ind...

The purpose of this study is to explore high school students’ perception of the relationship among science, history, and history of science which is one of the career elective subjects in the 2015 revised science curriculum. This study compares students’ perception before and after experiencing history of science course. To do this, data in the for...

Student attitudes toward science have been one of the longstanding topics in science education research. Even though Indonesia has a unique educational system in which cultural, religious, and cognitive aspects are incorporated in the science K-12 curriculum, a limited number of studies have explored Indonesian students’ attitudes towards science....

Many Amphibians are known to be the most vulnerable to environmental changes and seriously endangered. However, Amphibian conservation action are not active, because it have received little positive public attention compared to other animals. This study attempted to understand the dynamic emergence of positive emotion toward Amphibian by applying c...

The current study aimed to examine differences in ecological values between Indonesian and Korean preservice science teachers. Fifteen items from revised-New Ecological Paradigm based on value orientations were used as the research instrument. Two hundred seventy-three preservice science teachers participated in the study. Rasch analyses of dimensi...

Preparing a positive attitude toward convergence is essential to help students grow into future generations with the ability to solve various complex problems. This research aims to examine high school students' attitude toward convergence and the relation to gender and track. Responses from 1,186 Indonesian students in tenth (10th) and eleventh (1...

This study demonstrates the relations of the position of education in the correlation between religiosity, and socioeconomic variables by using national-level, and large survey data. We used data from the international survey of 68 countries, and used statistical methods to create the composite scores of every variable. Next, we used Pearson and pa...

Accurate, rational, and scientific decision making is now considered to be the most important skill in science education. Many studies have found that overconfidence bias is one of the cognitive biases hindering people from achieving such decision making. Gender and country play crucial roles in overconfidence bias. For instance, some particular cu...

Spelling errors in the corpora were considered as the important issue for automated computer scoring system. This may have an impact to the computer scoring efficacy. In this study we developed the automatic spelling correction system on automated computer scoring system. This research focused on four studies: (1) the automatic spelling correction...

The goal of our study was to examine a large (>400), cross-sectional sample of Chinese pre-service biology teachers (PBTs) in order to document their evolution acceptance levels, evolution knowledge, and evolutionary reasoning patterns. This approach was taken in order to better understand the degree to which particular evolutionary reasoning diffi...

The purpose of this study is to better understand the meaning of the complex problem solving, which has recently been highlighted as a core competence of future society. In order to achieve the research objectives, prior study in various fields such as medical education, management, cognitive science, psychology, and education were analyzed to iden...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the pre-service biology teachers' value orientation on science textbook. In specific, we focused on perception on role of science textbook in science classroom and value orientation on 'good science textbook. The data was gathered from 35 pre-service teachers who have major in biology education using two...

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the meaning and value of interest (in Korean ‘Jae-mi’) in science education through literature analysis. Literature analyses were conducted on literature related to interest in various fields such as Korean language, psychology, philosophy, and education. Specifically, this study discussed the meaning o...

This research examined longitudinal trajectories of Korean students’ motivation to learn science using group based trajectory modeling (GBTM). The changes in five motivational constructs were focused in this research: self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, grade motivation, self-determination, and career motivation. In addition, the relationship betw...

The purpose of this study was to understand the career motivation of secondary students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by comparing Korean and Indonesian students. Effects of gender and educational level on students’ STEM career motivation were also examined. To test for differences, we used Rasch analysis, 3-way ANOVA,...

Indonesia has received little attention in the evolution education research community despite being the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation and the third most populous democracy. As such, Indonesia has the potential to test generalizations and shed new light on the ways in which religion, culture, and formal education contribute to evolutionary...

The current study explores students' views about artificial intelligence (AI) through analyses of their drawings and perceptions. The data were gathered from a total of 177 elementary school students. The constant comparative analysis was used as the data analysis method. Based on the result, the current study found that students' views about artif...

The previous studies on motivation have merely revealed the effects of gender, educational level, and country; however, the effect of the interactions between these variables on motivation has not yet been uncovered. The present study aims to statistically examine whether or not the interactions between these three variables can significantly impac...

The purpose of this study was to confirm the recognition structure of science teachers' basic science, applied science, and convergence science. To do this, we investigated science teachers' perception of basic science, applied science, and convergence science using a language network analysis (SNA). In this study, 252 science teachers from 160 sch...

The purpose of this study is to explore the underlying latent classes of engineering students’ career value orientation through learner-centered approach. Also we identify characteristics of each latent classes based on students’ engineering accreditation program experience, gender, academic year. 2076 engineering students participated in this stud...

The purpose of this study is to investigate engineering students' attitude toward convergence and relevance with engineering education accreditation, gender, and academic year and attitude toward convergence. To be specific, fist, we examined whether the instrument for measuring attitudes toward convergence were reliable and valid for engineering s...

career motivation and to examine the relationship between the trajectory patterns and students’ tracks. Longitudinal STEM career motivation data with seven constructs were collected from 256 students for five semesters and the data were analyzed by using group-based trajectory modelling analysis. In order to examine the relationship between traject...

This study explores pre-service biology tea-chers' understanding of natural selection concept using the clinical interview method. In particular, this study compares the pre-service biology teachers' understanding of natural selection shown in interview method to those shown in multiple choice assessment and open-ended assessment method. In additio...

Motivation to learn is an essential element in science learning. In this study, the role of career motivation in science learning was examined. In particular, first, a science motivation model that focused on career motivation was tested. Second, the role of career motivation as a predictor of STEM track choice was examined. Third, the effect of ge...

The purpose of this study is to analyze interventional studies in science education on the justification of experimental design, the justification of sampling method, the justification of instruments, and the justification of justification of effect size. We selected 72 interventional studies published between 2005 and 2015 by Journal of the Korean...

This study aims to investigate the motivation for science learning of 3rd year high school students who choose different majors from their track. A total of 2,012 high school 3rd year students participated in this study. We used Science Motivation Questionnaire II (Glynn et al., 2011) to measure the students` science motivation and performed Rasch...

The purpose of the present study is to develop and validate an instrument to assess STEM career motivation. We developed 32 items for 7 constructs (i.e. education experience, career value, academic self-efficacy, career self-efficacy, career interest, parents` support, and career motivation) on STEM career motivation based on Social Cognitive Caree...

This study aims to explore pre-service biology teachers' value orientation in terms of scientific observation and representation in plant cell microscope observation experiment. This study focuses on the pre-service teachers' value orientation in relation to objectivity. To achieve this aim, we used a hypothetical situation that pre-service teacher...

Perception of the experiment is one of the most important factors of students' understanding of scientific inquiry and the nature of science. This study examined the perception of middle and high school students of the meaning of 'experiment' in the biological sciences. Semantic network analysis (SNA) was especially used to visualize students' perc...

Although a large body of work in science education has established the pervasive problem of science teachers’ alternative conceptions about evolution, knowledge deficits, and anti-evolutionary attitudes, only a handful of interventions have explored the mitigation of these issues using professional development (PD) workshops, and not a single study...

Students’ perception of science-related career strongly influences the formation of career motivation in science. Especially, the high level of science gifted students’ positive perceptions plays an important role in allowing them to continue to study science. This study compared perceptions of science-related career between general and gifted midd...

Students’ perception of science-related career strongly influences the formation of career motivation in science. Especially, the high level of science gifted students’ positive perceptions plays an important role in allowing them to continue to study science. This study compared perceptions of science-related career between general and gifted midd...

This study aimed to identify the level and progress of high school students' genetic concepts compared to the science curriculum and to compare the level to the American secondary school students. The 80-item AAAS genetic concept assessment was translated by the biology education experts and experienced biology teachers, and the assessment items wa...

Increasing the retention of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors has recently emerged as a national priority in undergraduate education. Since poor performance in large introductory science and math courses is one significant factor in STEM dropout, early detection of struggling students is needed. Technology-supported ''...

Students` perceived values of career play a core role in formation of their career motivation. In particular, science gifted students should build sound values of career in science and technology so that our society can retain the human resources for future science and technology. This study compared and analyzed the structure of science gifted and...

This study aims to investigate how high school teachers and students perceive the purpose of science learning. Participants were high school science teachers and students from one hundred and sixty high schools nationwide, which were selected through proportional stratified sampling method. Teachers and students responded on open-ended questionnair...

EvoGrader is a free, online, on-demand formative assessment service designed for use in undergraduate biology classrooms. EvoGrader’s web portal is powered by Amazon’s Elastic Cloud and run with LightSIDE Lab’s open-source machine-learning tools. The EvoGrader web portal allows biology instructors to upload a response file (.csv) containing unlimit...

This preliminary study explored the relationship among several school-level accountability measures and student physics and chemistry performance in New York City public schools. The NYC Department of Education prepared a three-year Quality Review and annual Progress Report for each high school in the district, assigning grades to assess overall sc...