Byung-Yeol Park

Dankook University

As a result of more recent events connected to the ongoing and lasting legacy of systemic racism in our society and the sparsity of research focused on both disciplinary teacher leadership (TL) and centering social justice and equity in teacher leadership literature reviews, this research investigated the ways in which science teacher leadership (S...

The purposes of this study were: (1) to revalidate the revised Systems Thinking Measuring Instrument (Re_STMI) reported by Lee et al. (2024) among Vietnamese high school students and (2) to investigate the differences in systems thinking abilities between Korean and Vietnamese high school students. To achieve this, data from 234 Vietnamese high sch...

This research sought to investigate teacher leadership in a districtwide STEM professional network using a previously developed community of practice teacher leadership identity model (CoPTLM). A qualitative research design with semi-structured interviews was used for the identified teacher leaders, teacher collaborators , and network staff members...

The purpose of this study is to verify the validity of the revised STMI, which is a revised and supplemented version of the Systems Thinking Measuring Instrument (STMI) developed by Lee et al. (2013) for high school students. For this purpose, we used data from 475 high school students' responses to 20 Revised STMI questions and 20 STS scale questi...

Applied pedagogy, and specifically service learning, bridges the university educational experience with hands-on training. Such pedagogies in STEM are nuanced in unique ways in comparison to more classroom-based STEM learning and applied teaching outside of STEM contexts. As STEM service learning may be especially vulnerable during system shocks, w...

This study aimed to verify the validity of a measurement tool for Vietnamese high school students' systems thinking abilities. Two quantitative assessment tools, the Systems Thinking Measuring Instrument (Lee et al., 2013) and the Systems Thinking Scale (Dolansky et al., 2020), were used to measure students' systems thinking after translation into...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of online education on gifted students' systems thinking, science motivation, and scientific self-efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The subjects were 68 elementary science gifted students in 2020. The education program focusing on 15 different subjects was conducted for 90 hours. To...

Background It is crucial to support students in better understanding water and sustainability issues because water plays a vital role in maintaining global ecosystems, including human life. A wide range of curricular and instructional supports like those embodied in model-based learning (MBL) are necessary for teachers to engage students in the cor...

Concerns related to diversity are important throughout society, especially in the context of expansive globalization. In education, diversity-related issues require careful consideration to ensure social groups that have historically been marginalized benefit from educational opportunities. In this study, we investigated a case from within the Unit...

The environment, science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics fields (a collection of fields we call E-STEAM) continue to grow and remain economically and ecologically important. However, historically excluded groups remain underrepresented in science and technology professions, particularly in environmental and digital media fields. Con...

Researchers in science education have recently focused on service learning as an important educational approach to address environmental challenges including climate change. However, there are a limited number of studies focused on service learning in science education in Korea. In this study, based on existing related literature, the theoretical b...

It has been over two years since the world came to a shuddering halt due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this time people have confronted the uncertainties and stresses created by the pandemic in relation to their health and well-being, educational and employment opportunities, and social, emotional, and physical isolation. Now, even...

High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide instructional guidance for students’ engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals of this research were to 1) understand how an epistemic community (the people designing and leading courses and programs) viewed the HL...

Background: Environmental sustainability-focused service-learning programs can aid communities in addressing environmental problems and provide students with hands-on training. Understanding the implementation of such programs can inform research and application. Purpose: We investigate the implementation of an environmental sustainability -focused...

The purpose of this study is to identify the main issues of international STEM education by synthesizing the findings in the field of global STEM education. The data in this study are the results of meta-analysis or systematic literature studies that reflect key issues of STEM education through the review of selection criteria and groups of experts...

An in-depth curricular unit exploring the effects of human land use on local water resources was created as part of a Teacher Professional Learning Program at the University of Connecticut’s Natural Resources Conservation Academy. This unit was designed to connect high school students to water resources in their community, both in the field and thr...

Issues on climate change we are facing, such as global warming, are very important as it affects our lives directly. To overcome this, efforts to reduce greenhouse gases emissions (e.g., carbon dioxide) are necessary and these efforts should be based on our integrated understanding of carbon cycle. The purpose of this study is to examine the resear...

The purpose of this study is to derive suggestions and implications to strengthen the science curriculum articulation of Korea through comparative analysis with focus on the articulation of science curriculum about the 'light' and 'electricity' concepts in seven countries. National science curriculum of each country complied from NCIC comparatively...

The purpose of this study is to derive suggestions and implications to strengthen the science curriculum continuity of Korea through comparative analysis with focus on the continuity of science curriculum in six countries (Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Finland, the United States, Canada, Korea). Original and Korean translations of the national curric...

In STEAM education, contents that has been extracted from a variety of areas, so it can work closely and systematically. Therefore STEAM education requires systems thinking that can be grasped effectively these different disciplines. The purposes of this study are to develop a STEAM program based on systems thinking, and apply the program to the se...

This study analyzed trends in domestic research over the last twelve years before and after the 2009 curriculum revision with respect to integrated science education. The data was reviewed and collected from masters theses, doctoral dissertations, and research articles published from 2001 to 2012. An analyzing framework was developed through litera...

융합인재교육은 다양한 교과영역에서 추출된 내용들이 체계적이고 밀접하게 연계되어 있으므로 이러한 체계를 효과적으로 파악할 수 있는 시스템적 사고를 필요로 한다. 이 연구는 시스템 사고력을 향상시킬 수 있는 융합인재교육 프로그램을 개발하고, 중등 과학영재에게 적용하여 교 육적 효과를 검증하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 융합인재교육과 시스템 사고에 대한 이론적 내용 과 선행 연구들을 바탕으로 프로그 모형을 개발하였고, 모형을 기초로 하여 ‘로켓’을 주제로 한 시스템 사고 기반의 융합인재교육 프로그램 초안을 개발하였다. 개발된 프로그램은 일반계 고 등학교 1~2학년 120명을 대상으로 예비 적용을 거쳤으며, 수정·보완을 통해 최...