Saetbyul Clara Kim

Korean Educational Development Institute

This mixed-methods study examined Grade 4 students’ growth in two types of civic competencies—argumentation skills and disciplinary thinking, and how civic competencies interweave and co-develop over an academic year in the context of an interdisciplinary social studies curriculum called Digital Civic Learning (DCL). A total of 106 fourth-grade stu...

In this study, we used a computerized text analysis tool to understand the use of logic-oriented language, emotion-oriented language, and sociomoral language derived from 662 Flipgrid videos produced by 120 fourth and fifth graders in social studies classrooms. Flipgrid is an online video-based discussion platform providing an educational version o...

Teachers and students construct dialogic spaces that mediate classroom learning. Dialogic space involves multiple voices constructed between individuals, within individuals, or from texts/media (Wegerif, 2007). Supported by technological tools, classroom dialogic spaces can expand from traditional face-to-face or person-text interactions to online...

The present study examines how 4th and 5th grade students choose between using either asynchronous text-based or video-based discussion tools when they express their opinions about controversial social issues. We particularly focus on how their choices are related to their socioeconomic status and online digital citizenship. We analyzed the modalit...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether justifying one’s own social knowledge (moral, societal, psychological) toward complex social-moral issues through collaborative argumentation was associated with the improvement of social perspective taking for elementary students. A total of 129 5th graders (52% female, Mage = 10.98) from six classr...

The current study examined the development of early adolescents’ social perspective taking (SPT) through collaborative small-group discussions. A total of 250 fifth-graders were assigned to three conditions, Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR) discussions, Read-Aloud (RA) and Regular Instruction (RI). SPT was assessed before and after the interven...

The present study examines the effectiveness of a three-unit digital social studies curriculum in cultivating elementary students’ civic reasoning and decision making during the pandemic year. Eighty-seven students participated in dialogue-rich activities to collectively resolve critical civic issues. Pre-post changes in civic reasoning and decisio...

The present study examines how 4th and 5th grade students’ collective efficacy (N=87) changed across a three-unit digital civic learning social studies curriculum and how students’ engagement related to their collective efficacy. Students participated in small-group discourse and worked with group members to solve civic-related dilemmas. Results fr...

We tested whether early adolescents’ fulfillment in basic psychological needs predicts their sense of purpose. Additionally, we investigated how students’ levels of fulfilled psychological needs moderate the association between students’ purpose and different learning goals, respectively. Finally, we explored the role of purpose as a mediator that...

I examined the effect of social support provided at volunteer work site in college students’ commitment in community service as well as the mediating roles of other-oriented attitudes in the relation between social support and community service. The data contained survey responses collected from a total of 443 college students in Korea, asking thei...

In this conference presentation, we understand elementary school students' experiences using distributed technologies in social studies classroom. Our study was conducted with 87 students (58% 4th grade; 48% girls; 59% White, 22% Black, 14% Asian, 5% Multiracial) from five classes across two Midwestern public elementary schools (the sample from one...

The current study examined whether students’ social perspective taking (SPT) could be developed through small group argumentative discussions. A total of 250 fifth-grade students were assigned to three conditions: Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR), Read Aloud (RA), and Regular Instruction (RI). Students’ SPT was assessed before and after the int...

Most children experience some form of grouping in the classroom every day. Understanding how teachers make grouping decisions and their impacts on children’s social development can shed light on effective teacher practices for promoting positive social dynamics in the classroom. This study examined the influence of teachers’ grouping strategies on...

This comparative case study features two small groups of students engaging in collaborative dialog about social issues. Based on social constructivist theories, the two groups were compared across three major components of the small groups system: social dynamics, intellectual collaboration, and teacher scaffolding. Our goal was to holistically ana...

This comparative case study features two small groups of students engaging in collaborative dialog about social issues. Based on social constructivist theories, the two groups were compared across three major components of the small groups system: social dynamics, intellectual collaboration, and teacher scaffolding. Our goal was to holistically ana...

We examined whether participating in in dialogic discussions led to improvement in students’ social knowledge. Fifth-grade students’ social reasoning was assessed before and after six weeks of discussions using an essay task. Poisson regressions with Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) showed that the amount of social knowledge generated during...

The current study examined the relation between students’ participation in and attitudes toward volunteering work, and tested whether the relationship was moderated by social support from staff members, volunteer peers, and clients. This test was conducted using regression analysis on the data from 185 university students and differentiation of the...

Doing good to others including taking part in certain volunteering works is aligned with God's words and the guidance in living Christian lives. In educational field, volunteering work is acknowledged as one of the activities that has positive effects for the participants and therefore, it has been widely researched by many different scholars so fa...

Society has tried to enhance volunteering of adolescents. Therefore, it is critical to understand the current state of adolescents’ volunteering and examine the effects of volunteering participation on adolescents’ psychological characteristics. The present study investigated the reasons of participating in volunteer activities and identified the r...

This study sought to identify the reciprocal effects of social relationships and a sense of community by means of autoregressive cross-legged modeling. Social relationships have been examined through adolescents’ relationships with their parents, peers and teachers. A sense of community has been conceptualized through a number of different dimensio...

Contemporary life poses challenges for the aspirations of young people all over the globe. How are today’s youth finding positive and meaningful purposes? What can be done to help them live out happy and purposeful lives? This webinar is Part 2 of a conversation highlighting international perspectives on youth purpose and well-being