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Byun, Soo-yong; Jung, Jilli; Shin, Tae-Seob – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
Using longitudinal data for a nationally representative sample of fifth-graders from the Korean Educational Longitudinal Study of 2013, this study examined the effect of shadow education -- referred to as academically oriented extracurricular activities mainly aimed to prepare for examinations -- on students' creative thinking. To estimate the…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Private Education, Elementary School Students, Creative Thinking
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Chae, Soo Eun; Alexander, Patricia A. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2022
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relational reasoning performance of three groups from South Korea who either differed significantly in age or in the timing of their education. One group consisted of 200 sixth-grade adolescents. The other groups were composed of older adults who either attended school during the mandated…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Grade 6, Adolescents
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Han, Kyoo-Hoon; Kim, Jieun – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2019
This study devised an approach utilizing advertisements for cognitive education, particularly training to foster critical thinking ability of elementary students and conducted a field experiment to verify its educational effect. Fourteen sessions of the critical thinking education were performed over one semester geared toward elementary students…
Descriptors: Advertising, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students
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Noh, Jiyae; Lee, Jeongmin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Around the world, programming education is actively promoted by such factors as economic and technical requirements. The use of a robot in programming education could help students understand computer-science concepts more easily. In this study we designed a course in programming a robot for elementary school students and investigated its…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Robotics, Programming
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Min, Sun Hee; Kim, Min Kyeong – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
In this study, we designed and applied physical computing lessons for elementary 6th-grade students based on the software education guidelines in the Korean 2015 Revised National Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2015a). The participants of this study were ten 6th-grade students of an elementary school in Gyeonggi-do province in Korea. The…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Paek, Sue Hyeon; Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
The criterion-related validity of divergent thinking (DT) tests has been questioned because of relatively low correlations between DT test scores and creative performance. A possible inhibiting factor in previous correlations--heterogeneity of the sample--has been ignored. If groups with different DT profiles are involved in this line of research,…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Tests, Creative Thinking