Soo-Young Lee

Seoul National University of Education · College of Education

Abstract This study focused on elementary teachers’ perceptions of smart learning issues to suggest a better future teachers’ training program to support student’s smart learning in classrooms. Rapidly developing technology changes every aspect of our life. In order for twenty-first century learners to prepare for this technologically ever advancin...

The National Folk Museum of Korea is a representative history museum that collects, preserves, shows, shares, and transmits values of Korean life, folk culture, and arts. This study was part of a bigger project that evaluated the educational programs of the National Folk Museum of Korea. The project evaluated the educational effectiveness of the pr...

The purpose of this study is to investigate a meaningful path model among the components of students' positive experiences about science and science learning to understand the interactive relationships among different variables of affective domains. Positive Experiences about Science (PES) means whole experiences that have positive effects on stude...

The purpose of this article is to examine the structural relationships among teacher creativity, teaching expertise and creative teaching behaviors. Survey data were analyzed for 304 pre-service elementary teachers in Korea. The findings showed that teacher creativity and teaching expertise had a meaningful impact on creative teaching behaviors. Al...

The study aims to analyze the “smart learning readiness” of elementary teachers in Korea. The readiness for smart learning in our study was measured by multiple facets of elementary teachers’ perceptions and practices in the classroom. We sent out the survey to teachers in Seoul and its suburban areas of South Korea, and 422 completed surveys were...

In the elementary science classroom, inquiry-based learning activities are often limited to students' hands-on experiences. As a result, students often overlook core concepts they are supposed to acquire from the inquiry activities and show difficulties in applying those concepts in a real life context. To make a connection between the hands-on act...

This study attempts to identify the relationship between students' images of science and science learning, and their career choices. A total of 163 students (seventh graders) from three different middle schools participated in this study. Students' images of science and science learning were investigated using the Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) and t...

We analyzed graders' images of scientists and science learning students. We chose graders because this is the time when children first encounter formal science learning opportunities. Draw-A-Scientist-Test (DAST) and the revised Draw-A-Scientist-Test Checklist (DAST-C) were used to analyze students' images of scientists, whereas Drawing-A-Science-L...

With the growing emphasis on the development of scientific inquiry skills, there is a strong need for more research on students' ability to collect and interpret evidence. This paper calls attention to the notion of evidentiary competence that refers to the concepts and reasoning skills involved in the collection, organization, and interpretation o...

In this study, university students were provided with repeated opportunities to represent their ideas graphically, and to examined via their drawings the extent to which they could visualize macroscopic phenomena microscopically. These drawings provided insight into the students' basic understanding of solution chemistry, revealing three conceptual...

This study investigated changes in Korean science teachers' perceptions of creativity and science teaching after participating in an overseas professional development program. Participants were 35 secondary science teachers. Data were collected from open-ended questionnaires and interviews. Results indicated that participants showed a growing aware...

We introduce a model of instructional leadership that can self-sustain curriculum-based reforms at school sites. Our model is based on a six year longitudinal study of science teachers who implemented an inquiry-based, technology-rich weather curriculum as part of their district-wide science education reform initiatives. This study defines a sustai...

This paper illustrates the on-going efforts of an innovative science program called “Kids as Global Scientists” to take full advantage of Internet technology for better learning and teaching. We analyzed electronic communication between students and scientists on the Message Board and the development of students’ scientific understanding through el...