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Soyeon Kim; Jung Bog Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Despite increased research interest in improving students' scientific inquiry abilities, how to conduct scientific inquiry using science textbooks that are easily accessible to primary school students remains understudied. This study developed and verified an inquiry activity model (IAM) to improve the performance of primary school students in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Son, Ji-Won; Jo, Seungjung; Wallace, Samantha; Obielodan, Florence F. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine how proportional reasoning is introduced and developed in two widely used U.S. and Korean mathematics textbooks for grades 6-7. Seven research-based frameworks that identify student learning opportunities for understanding of proportional reasoning were used to analyze the textbooks. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Education
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Gyewon Jang; Gertrude Tinker Sachs; Jee Hye Park – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
In response to becoming a more multicultural society, the South Korean Ministry of Education has implemented a multicultural education policy since 2006 by promoting English as key for young learners' communicative competence in a global world. Despite numerous previous studies on government-led curriculum and textbooks for English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Okin; Shin, Mikyung – Exceptionality, 2023
Learning mathematics in an inclusive classroom is challenging for many students with disabilities. The adapted digital mathematics textbooks for Grades 3 to 6 in South Korea were designed to support these students' access to the general mathematics curriculum. This study evaluates these textbooks according to the Universal Design for Learning…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Books, Textbooks
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Kim, JeongWon; Pang, JeongSuk – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
The purpose of the study was to explore how contents related to sustainable development were presented in Japanese, Korean, and Singaporean elementary mathematics textbooks. For this purpose, the contents in the textbooks were analyzed at both macro and micro levels through a mixed method research. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Paik, Seoung-Hey – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
The purpose of this study was to explore how examples used in teaching may influence elementary school students' conceptions of evaporation and boiling. To this end, the examples traditionally used to explain evaporation and boiling in Korean 4th grade science textbooks were analyzed. The functions of these published examples were explanation…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Scientific Concepts, Heat
Joo, Young Ju; Joung, Sunyoung; Choi, Se-Bin; Lim, Eugene; Go, Kyung Yi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The purpose of this study is to explore variables affecting the acceptance of digital textbooks in the elementary school environment and provide basic information and resources to increase the intention of acceptance. Based on the above research purposes. Surveys were conducted using Google Docs targeting randomly selected elementary school…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Do Kyun; Dinu, Lucian F.; Chung, Wonjon – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2013
Currently, the South Korean government is in the process of transforming school textbooks from a paper-based platform to a computer-based digital platform. Along with this effort, interactive online educational games (edu-games) have been examined as a potential component of the digital textbooks. Based on the theory of diffusion of innovations,…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Grade 4