China has been moving rapidly to improve the use of information technology in elementary and secondary schools, progressing in stages from offering basic computer programming courses to creating networked schools with information technology integrated into the whole curriculum. By 2003, in the developed regions of the country, 70 percent of teachers applied information technology to their classes often. In the Tenth Five Year Plan (2001 - 2005), the Chinese government gave priority to the construction of information technology infrastructure. By 2003 the ratio of elementary school students to computers was 12:1 in the most developed regions and 373:1 in the least developed. At the high school level the range was from 8:1 to 18:1. One goal is to equalize educational opportunities across the geographic regions, which now vary greatly As part of this education improvement initiative, the central government will undertake a number of programs, including an ICT development project in village schools, aimed at improving staff development, school management, and instructional quality and efficiency. According to the new teacher training plan, normal universities will make full use of face-to-face education and distance education to lay the groundwork for improved instructional resources and form an instructional network for village and city teachers. Those regions which have been well equipped with computers and school networks will develop network training and TV training. The purpose of these efforts is to effect modernization in education, meaning the improvement of educational efficiency and effectiveness and the promotion of more learner-centered instruction.

The deficiency of competent native English speaker raters and the inherent problem with intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the oral proficiency interview (OPI) has precluded the full-fledged implementation of English performance testing, inevitably ushering in the computer- based oral proficiency interview (COPI) as its viable alternative with the help of automatic speech recognition (ASR). The plausibility and feasibility of implementing ASR-based COPI has recently been investigated with favorable results, which warrants more sophisticated research focusing on development of desirable test methods that will meet the rigorous criteria required by high-stakes language tests. In this respect, employing varied statistical methods as correlational, regression analyses, and ANOVA, the present study attempts to explore strengths and limitations of test method facets and to identify valid test methods to maximize the validity and reliability of ASR-based COPⅠ. Within the theoretical framework of communicative language components to be measured, the statistical findings reveal that some test methods prove to be more effective than others in producing COPI test results with better discriminability and reliability. The survey of students and teachers also suggest their favorable attitudes toward utilizing the COPI for in-class evaluation. Both findings strongly corroborates potential of the COPI in question as a valid performance testing tool to measure overall communicative competence. The current research is expected not only to shed light on advancement of performance testing, but also to serve the purpose of enhancing communicative English teaching.

中等學校漢文科敎育은 國家單位敎育課程의 범주에서 학교의 지도하에 이루어지는 교과학습의 한 영역이다. 2001년 중학교부터 실시된 第7次敎育課程은 현재 모든 中等學校에 적용되고 있으며, 2005년은 그 4~5년째를 맞고 있다. 그 시작 초기부터 많은 비판과 문제점이 제기되었던 제7차 교육과정은 漢文科敎育에도 적잖은 문제점을 낳고 있다. 敎育課程의 문제는 國家單位의 制度的事案인 동시에 敎科內的問題로, 실제적으로는 그 교과 責任者의 敎育課程設定과 運營에 대한 문제로 歸着된다. 본 연구는 대전광역시 중등학교 漢文科敎育을 중심으로 2002년과 2005년 敎育課程에 대한 學校級別편성 사항을 살펴보고, 그 運營實態와 문제점과 改善事案에 대해 논의한 것이다. 이 같은 연구의 목적은 교육과정에 대한 國家的次元의 制度的改善요구와, 또 이를 실천할 수 있는 새 漢文科敎育課程案에 대한 연구에 있다. 논의된 주요 사안을 제도적 측면과 교과 내적 문제로 정리해 보면 다음과 같다. <제도적 측면> 첫째, 국어 교과의 종속적 범주에서 벗어나야 한다. 둘째, 한문을 국민공통기본 교과에 포함시켜야 한다. 셋째, 교육용기초한자나 全敎科의 주요 漢字語를 수록한 한자 교과를 신설해야 한다. 넷째, 전통문화와 인성교육을 위한 한자ㆍ한문 혼용 교과를 개설해야 한다. 다섯째, 한문교육을 강화할 수 있는 교육 정책을 범국가적으로 추진해야 한다. <교과 내적 문제> 첫째, 제7차 교육과정의 성격ㆍ목적ㆍ목표 등에 대한 실천과 반성의 기회를 가져야 한다. 둘째, 초등학교부터 한자ㆍ한문교육의 당위성을 입증할 연구 자료가 구비되어야 한다. 셋째, 교육용기초한자와 모든 敎科의 漢字語를 다룬 교재를 개발하여야 한다. 넷째, 인성교육ㆍ전통문화 교육 중심의 한자ㆍ한문 혼용 교재를 개발한다. 다섯째, 한문교육의 과제를 연구하고, 그 필요성을 홍보할 단체를 운영해야 한다. 지금까지 論議한 漢文科敎育課程에 대한 제반문제는 國家的課題인 동시에 漢文科교육이 해결해야 할 事案이다. 그러므로 새 교육과정이 논의되기 전에 漢文科敎育課程의 편성ㆍ운영에 대한 체계적 연구가 선행되지 않는다면, 앞서 논의한 여러 事案의 前轍은 반복될 수밖에 없다. 미래 漢文科敎育의 成敗는 敎育課程의 배치와 운영에 있다 할 수 있으므로, 漢文科교육은 제7차 한문과 교육과정에 대한 철저한 분석과 함께 최적의 대안을 찾아야 하며, 궁극적으로는 미래 韓國敎育을 先導하는 새로운 誕生이 되어야 할 것이다.

The purpose of this study was to find out the improving achievement and fulfillment in the co-ed physical education classes through the understanding of female students. We inquired into the gender role identity and gender consciousness to understand scho

The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not there were any gaps in motor skills, physical education knowledge acquisition, participation attitude and learning interest between learners who set up their own goals in light of their abilities and

This short essay is a slightly modified version of a presentation read at the annual Institute seminar held at SNU on the 5th of December to exchange views on the function of reading in foreign language education in Korea. It begins with the discussion of a need on the paπ of policy makers of English teaching to reassess and revise the dominantly pragmatic and instrumentalist philosophy particularly working in the pedagogy of reading in English. According to the revisionist review of the present writer, the guiding spirit of the 4-skill orientation has so far tended to overvalue the linguistic and communicative functions (or ’grammar’ as is termed here to contrast with the 'text’ that follows) at the cost of the human or readerly values carried by signifying textuality of the reading material. Language should and is fated to reflect and realize the lived experience of concrete and individualized people and society. English is a natural and cultural language that embraces a11 these cultural resourcefulness and expressiveness before it is a foreign language. Strategies of reading pedagogy ought to reflect this fundamental as well as human or value-oriented aspect of language despite the limited level of the language on the part of its leamers.

This is a report of a decriptive study of the secondary earth science to examine the geology education in the United States. The review of 35 states' science curricula and papers on science education presented the author a guide to this writing on earth science and geology education in the United States. Though the earth science education in the United States is characterized by great variety, the author could find two most common contents in geology curricula : these are $quot;Constitution of the Earth$quot; and $quot;Physical Geography$quot;. Methods of science teaching and use of computer and student assessment in the secondary schools in the United States are also reviewed and summarized in this study.

The papers of earth science examinations given during the first semester of 1981 academic year were collected from the seventy five high schools randomly chosen all over the country. The examination questions were analyzed and evaluated in order to grasp the current state and issues of earth science education. Some critical remarks and suggestions are made for improvement of the earth science education at the secondary school level.