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PhD dissertation: Causal Relationships among Students' Attitude, Interest, Conceptual Understanding, and School Achievement in Secondary Physics

Posted at 2008/08/14 03:23
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This is my PhD dissertation published on August 2008.

[CITATION]
Kim, M. (2008). Causal Relationships among Students' Attitude, Interest, Conceptual Understanding, and School Achievement in Secondary Physics. Seoul National University, Seoul.

[KEY WORDS]
dichotomous attitude toward science, topic interest, conceptual understanding, school achievement, structural equation modeling, Relevance of Science Education (ROSE)

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Minkee PhD Paper.pdf

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Development of an Instrument for Measuring Affective Factors Regarding Conceptual Understanding in High School Physics

Posted at 2007/10/31 11:41
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This article is part 1 of my PhD dissertation. Much work still remains, but will be answered through part 2 and 3. The three parts will compose the whole structure. I am planning to graduate on coming August.

[TITLE]
Development of an Instrument for Measuring Affective Factors Regarding Conceptual Understanding in High School Physics

[AUTHORS]
Minkee Kim, Masakata Ogawa

[ABSTRACT]
Among many remedial approaches against the increasing unfavorableness toward school science, one of the prevalent findings studied by affective experts is that students’ achievement in science and their attitude toward it has a relatively weak relationship. In contrast, cognitive experts assert that the conceptual change involves more than cognitive aspects, and may be influenced by affective factors such as beliefs, motivation, learning attitudes, and sociocultural contexts. ...

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Useful Materials for Graduate students (in Science Education) 과학 교육 학도를 위한 유용한 자료들

Posted at 2007/05/29 02:38
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Useful Materials for Graduate students (in Science Education)
과학 교육 학도를 위한 유용한 자료들
科学教育院生たちに役に立つマニュアル

General aids for your proficiency
Wechsler, H. B., & Bell, A. (2005). Speed Reading for Professionals. New York: Barrons Educational Series, Inc.

Geared for the busy professional, and an excellent expenditure of funds for anyone wanting to increase reading speed. Previously I read about 2-3 books per week, mostly nonfiction. I'm reading one per day now. I'll probably burn out on that pace in a couple of weeks, but so far it's been great.

General handbook of science education
Fensham, P. J. (2004). Defining an Identity: The Evolution of Science Education as a Field of Research (Vol. 20). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

It uses the significant studies of more than 75 researchers in 15 countries to see to what extent they provide evidence for an identity as a distinctive field of research. It considers trends in the research over time, and looks particularly at what progression in the research entails.

Web database search
http://scholar.google.com/

The brilliant DB system does not only give you exact links to the literature containing your keywords, but also the frequency ranking of being referred.

Statistics, SPSS
Vaus, D. A. D. (2002). Analyzing Social Science Data: 50 Key Problems in Data Analysis. London: Sage Publications Inc.

The book is an authoritative guide to the problems facing beginners in the field. Analyzing Social Science Data guides students in: problems with the initial data; problems with the initial variables; how to handle too much data; how to generalize; problems of analyzing single variables; problems examining bivariate relationships; and problems examining multivariate relationships

George, D., & Mallery, P. (2003). SPSS for Windows Step by Step - A simple Guide and Reference 11.0 Update (4th ed.). USA: Pearson Education, Inc.

As a first time user of SPSS, I was easily able to set up a data file using this reference book. It is very clearly written, easy to understand, and I think much better than the Pallant "SPSS Survival Manual" which I also purchased.

Statistics, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
Diamantopoulos, A., & Siguaw, J. A. (2000). Introducing LISREL: A Guide for the Uninitiated. London: Sage Publications Ltd.

The authors do a great job describing both structural equation modeling and LISREL in a common-sense manner. Although you'll want to keep your other references (say Bollen 1989), this book makes a great ready reference and perhaps the first that you reach for.

Schumacker, R. E., & Lomax, R. G. (2004). A beginner's guide to structural equation modeling (Second Edition ed.). London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Schumacker and Lomax have successfully put together a guide that explains to beginners (like myself) in simple terms how the whole thing works. I highly recommend this for anyone starting on SEM - your modeling days will be much happier with this guide.

How to write good papers

Tschannen-Moran, M., & Nestor-Baker, N. (2004). The Tacit Knowledge of Productive Scholars in Education. Teachers College Record, 106(7), 1484-1511.
Klingner, J. K. (2005). How to Publish in Scholarly Journals. Educational Researcher, 34(8), 14-20.
Symonds, P. M. (1933). Characteristics Of A Good Dissertation In Education. Teachers College Record, 34(4), 312-326.
Kilbourn, B. (2006). The Qualitative Doctoral Dissertation Proposal. Teachers College Record, 108(4), 529-576.

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Developing a Web-Based System for Testing Students' Physics Misconceptions (WEBSYSTEM) and its Implementation

Posted at 2007/05/14 12:38
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This is my 3-year work. It's finally done. I have learned much about life and people as well as what the article says, writing it. It does not seem that people around me always get alone with me. That is because I sometimes get suprised watching them become what they should not be. However, it is worth to try to work in this academic career. That is obviously true until I get my PhD degree.

[TITLE]
Developing a Web-Based System for Testing Students' Physics Misconceptions (WEBSYSTEM) and its Implementation

[AUTHORS]
Minkee Kim, et al.

(The other names of the co-authors are abbreviated; the original PDF file surely has them. This is for preventing them to be reluctantly exposed to the web.)

[ABSTRACT]
Several studies have attempted to test students’ misconceptions of physics and to provide teaching strategies in order to repair them. The results from these studies have revealed that the diagnosis of students’ misconception is crucial, although they often failed to grasp the practice of its implementation. ...

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Minkee2007.pdf

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효원 2007/05/14 13:22 # M/D Reply Permalink

민기 안녕~
근데 논문이 안 열린다. -_-;
1. Minkee 2007/05/14 13:26 # M/D Permalink
  
  그럴리가... 음.. 왜그러지?
  밑에 있는 Minkee2007.pdf 파일 클릭해본거야? >_<
창민 2007/05/15 09:52 # M/D Reply Permalink

Hi, Minkee.
I'm fine at Daegu.
But I should talk not to attend the party for teacher in lab.
I'll get time to interview of my new job tomorrow.
I want to be able to meet some days.
Have a nice weekend.
Sincerely.
From your ex-room-mate.
1. Minkee 2007/05/16 08:08 # M/D Permalink
  
  OK, it would've been much better for you to join us. We had great fun together. The Pizza was great!!!
  
  I hope that we could see soon again.
  Take care~
효원 2007/05/16 04:47 # M/D Reply Permalink

응... 역시나 안 열린다...
1. Minkee 2007/05/16 06:20 # M/D Permalink
  
  알려줘서 고마워... Internet Explorer 에선 왜 안되는 것일까? 세상엔 과학으로 설명할 수 없는 기이한 현상이 많이 일어나는 듯. ㅋㅋ
유명한 2007/05/20 13:09 # M/D Reply Permalink

민기야~ 정말 정말 축하해~^^ 나두 졸업논문을 영어로 쓰고있는데 영어로 논문쓰는게 참 어렵잖어~ 좋겠다~^^
난 한글로 쓴 페이퍼가 6월달에 게제된다.ㅎㅎ
더욱더 좋은 결과있길 바래~^^
1. Minkee 2007/05/20 16:07 # M/D Permalink
  
  고마워~~~ ㅎㅎ 우리 졸업을 위해 내자구~!!
  Thanks. Let's go for our graduation!!!!
한용 2007/05/22 02:59 # M/D Reply Permalink

민기야 안녕~~^^
네이트엔 거의 스팸만 와서 메일잘 확인안하거덩
오늘 니 메일 발견하고 들른다.

일단 논문 나온거 정말 축하하고 한국생활 잘하고 있다고 하니깐 좋네 ㅎㅎ 논문 함 읽어보고 커멘트할께.

그럼 잘지내고 종종보자 민기야
1. Minkee 2007/05/24 04:37 # M/D Permalink
  
  안녕~ 스팸문제 심각하지.. 나도 잘 쓰던 계정 하나 없앴어. 이름 좋았는데 말이얌. 기회되면 너가 잘 쓰는 멜 주소 알려줘~ 가끔 메일 보낼꼐~
유명한 2007/07/18 14:58 # M/D Reply Permalink

민기야~~ 잘지내고있지?
나는 마카오에 컨퍼런스 잘다녀왔다..^^
졸업논문도 인쇄했고, 이젠 정말 졸업식만 하면..ㅋ
언제 함 시간내서 보자~
논문 잘쓰진 못했지만 줄테니깐~ㅎㅎ
너두 논문 잘준비하고..
더욱더 훌륭한 논문 쓰길 바래~^^

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PhD dissertation: Causal Relationships among Students' Attitude, Interest, Conceptual Understanding, and School Achievement in Secondary Physics

Development of an Instrument for Measuring Affective Factors Regarding Conceptual Understanding in High School Physics

Useful Materials for Graduate students (in Science Education) 과학 교육 학도를 위한 유용한 자료들

Developing a Web-Based System for Testing Students' Physics Misconceptions (WEBSYSTEM) and its Implementation

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