본 연구에서는 사범대학의 현행 지구과학 교사 양성 교육 과정을 크게 교직 이론, 교육 실습, 교과 교육학, 교과 내용학으로 나누어 분석하여 그 개선 방안을 탐색해 보았다. 교직이론의 경우는 교육학 이론 학습에 치중하고 있어 실제성이 떨어지며, 교과 교육학 선수 학습 교과로서 이수 시기에 문제가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 그러므로 과목간 연계성 유지를 위해 교직 이론을 교과 교육학 이전에 이수하도록 하며, 되도록이면 현장성이 강한 교직 이론 과목을 이수하도록 권장하여야 할 것이다. 교육 실습의 경우는 교육실습 기간이 외국에 비해 짧으며, 신규 교사를 위한 별도의 업무 외 연수과정이 없고 인턴제도나 직무 연수 프로그램이 미흡한 현재의 교사 양성 교육과정 체제에서는 교육 실습이 이런 역할을 대신할 수밖에 없을 것으로 판단된다. 그러므로 학교 시스템의 전반적인 흐름을 이해하기 위해서 교육 실습 기간을 최소3∼6개월 이상으로 늘려야 할 필요가 있다. 교과 교육학의 경우는 우선 교과 내용학에 비해 할당된 과목의 비율이 매우 낮았다. 그러므로 교과 교육학 과목의 양적인 증가가 우선되어야 할 것이며, 지구과학 교과 교육 전공 교수의 확보가 필요하다. 교과 내용학의 경우, 다루는 내용이 중등학교 교육 과정과 동떨어진 면이 있으며 대학별로 개설 강좌의 영역별비율에서 상당한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이런 문제를 해소하기 위해서는 교과 교육학 강좌와 교과 내용학 강좌를 연계시켜 개설하고, 각 영역별 기본 이수 학점을 적정 비율로 할당하는 방법을 고려해 보아야 할 것이다.

Modern management considers customer satisfaction as a baseline standard of performance and a possible standard of excellence for any business organization including the college. Quality function deployment(QFD) is a structured approach to seek out voice of customers, understanding their needs, and ensure that their needs are met. The strategy value proposed by Chien et al. combines importance, satisfaction, performance, and ability to enhance decision making effectiveness. But in their model, the correlation among the strategic alternatives isn't considered the decision chain and is therefore eliminated. This paper proposes how to calculate the new weight of columns to consider various strength levels of correlations matrix, representing the correlation among the strategic alternatives, using normalization procedure. The aim of this paper is to present and original customer satisfaction survey conducted in the college. Thus, this paper presents an original customer satisfaction survey in the college and provides to demonstrate the practical usage of the design model to compare this model with Chien's model.

This paper presents the rationale behind a newly-developed and implemented college freshman program designed to improve writing skills and the outcomes after one year running. In line with the current teaching trend of colleges in Korea, this program has several features such as placing the freshmen into different levels based on their writing skills, running class focusing on writing skills and giving a S/U grade. Comparisons between a pre-writing test and two post-writing tests show that this program has contributed to increasing the students’ writing skills. The students’ responses to the questionnaire of the program also endorse the test results. A couple of pedagogical implications concerning EFL writing education are suggested.

Motivation is one of the main determinants in the success of attaining a foreign language. Accordingly, there has been a considerable amount of research on L2 motivation in the last three decades. These studies on L2 motivation, however, tend to depend heavily on quantitative approach rather than qualitative approach regardless of educational context. Although we have gained our knowledge on relationships among motivational factors, we do not have enough evidence to understand Korean learners’ L2 motivational ups and downs in a classroom foreign language learning. Suspending our current beliefs about L2 motivation, and investigating what facilitate, debilitate, and sustain learners’ motivation in a Korean classroom will provide us invaluable insights to understand the nature of L2 motivation. The purpose of this paper is to find out factors that is facilitating, debilitating, and maintaining learners’ motivation in an ESP classroom in a university. The participants were 115 university students enrolled in a business English class. The participants’ responses on the open-ended questionnaire were analyzed by the NUD*IST program (V.4.0). There seem to be some difference in facilitating, debilitating, sustaining motivations in learning English in classroom. Classroom implications are discussed in light of these findings.

The present study aims to design a web-based syllabus for teaching college English. The theoretical premises underlying the study are drawn from recent developments in relevant fields including web-based instruction, classroom observation and supervision, in-service teacher development, and program evaluation. The model is characterized by its learner-centeredness, teacher observation and supervision for professional development, and process-oriented program evaluation. Data for the program evaluation are gathered from various sources such as questionnaire responses, observation records, supervisory notes, teacher diary entries, and assessment. The information from the evaluation is then fed back to improve the course in a cyclical process. Through a small-scale application of the model some suggestions for its effective implementation are made in terms of institutional support, copyright, student autonomy, teacher roles, and e-learning course evaluation.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate English education experts’ current general views on the college English curriculum at Korean provincial universities and elicit their consensus of opinion on the distinctive characteristics of the curriculum. For that purpose, two rounds of the delphi survey were presented to forty experts, with thirty one experts’ responses in the first round and nineteen in the second. Based on their responses, the following characteristics of the Korean college English curriculum for provincial universities were deduced as a consensus of opinion: the curriculum is supposed to be more intensive, practical, proficiency-based, and university-specific than the curriculum for the universities in the Metropolitan area; it is supposed to be English for Specific Purposes (ESP) rather than English for General Purposes (EGP) in order to promote the future career of the individual provincial university students and the competitiveness of the provincial universities themselves.

Thermal response of Korean college students was investigated in a thermal environmental chamber during summer season. Eight thermal conditions combined with four air temperatures (24, 26, 28, 30℃) and three relative humidities (40, 60, 80%) were selected. Subjects of seven females and seven males were questioned in the chamber for three hours, where thermal and comfort sensations were surveyed every fifteen minutes. During the period of thermal response experiment, four thermal parameters of air temperature, relative humidity, air velocity, and globe temperature were monitored in the test chamber. The repeatability and temporal variation of thermal response were discussed. The thermal sensation vote (TSV) of females is in good agreement with the predicted mean vote (PMV) calculated from the thermal parameters and human parameters. However, the TSV of male shows a slight discrepancy with the PMV. The neutral points of both female and male are very close to 0.18 of PMV, indicating that college-age Korean like to a slight warm environment compared with Western people. The thermal sensation vote of subjects is well correlated with the comfort sensation vote.