2017, Vol.1, No.1

The Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.22

pISSN : 2586-5439 / eISSN : 2713-7457
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jts

This study aimed to provide basic data for the development of a specialized death preparation education program and to analyze the educational perception of experts working in the field of death education. The subjects of the survey were people who had acquired the private certificate of a well-dying instructor, and the survey was conducted by mail. The results of the analysis of the questions about the contents of death education and the appropriate subjects of death education showed that “psychological stability” in death education was selected by 83.0% of subjects, and 61.7% answered that the general public are the most suitable subjects for death education. Regarding the factors influencing the education of well-dying instructors, multiple regression analysis showed that the regression model had an explanatory power of 61.5%. The influencing factors that were statistically significant were the duration of activity, the appropriate number of weekly education sessions, and the appropriate weekly education period. To sum up the results, this study aimed to help solve the problems of current education and improve well-dying education’s appropriateness and professionalism. Because the subjects were experts in the field, the results are usable and feasible. However, the questions related to “the requirement of well-dying instructors” and “the priorities of well-dying education” need to be investigated in more detail.

This study aimed to identify watching behaviors matched with instructional events in a general video-based learning environment and investigate the relationships among the watching behaviors, learning flow, and the learning achievement. The watching behaviors were fixation, saccade, and pupil dilation, among others, and those of 61 participants were recorded throughout their course of learning. The level of their learning achievement and learning flow were also collected. The experiment stimulus was an about 10 minutes of a video clip, and it was about the normal distribution in the statistics course. Under the purpose of research, the most frequent watching behaviors relying upon the instructor’s behavior were identified, and the correlation and regression analyses were performed repeatedly using the watching behaviors, learning flow, and the learning achievement as the variables. In this study, the regression models for predicting the learning achievement, along with the watching behaviors and learning flow, were not clearly developed; however, the process of this research suggested certain meaningful implications for interpreting the learners’ state in the progress of learning and suggesting directions for the future statistical analyses. Further discussion is included.

This study has the aim to investigate the college students’ eye strain caused by their eye movements. In this study, we used a developed questionnaire comprised of 88 questions including eye strain. The data was collected from February 4, 2012 until February 22, 2012. The participants were 273 undergraduates who were resident in Jeolla and Gyeonggi provinces of Korea. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS 19.0. The results of this study as follows. 67% of participants used optical aids such as eye glasses and contact lenses. For them, the initial age of using the optical aids was 14.27. They experienced sensitivity (61.2%), dryness (58.6%), itching (44.6%) of their eyes. They purchased contact lenses at the optician's shop (94.4%), and they used contact lenses with the object of both correction and beautification (43.4%). The initial age of wearing contact lenses was 18.38. The mean score of eye strain was 16.36. There were significant differences in gender (t=-3.171, p=.002), eyesight testing time (F=6.380, p=.002), use of the optical aids (t=-4.096, p<.001), use of the contact lenses (t=-5.988, p<.001), eye disease (t=5.903, p<.001), sitting posture (F=-6.477, p<.001), side effects of wearing contact lenses (t=3.502, p=.001), daily use of contact lenses (t=-2.921, p=004), and weekly use of contact lenses (t=-2.273, p=.024) causing the eye strain. This study confirmed that the participants wearing contact lenses feel more eye strain than otherwise. Therefore, it is necessary to develop nursing interventions and educational program to help manage contact lenses and eye health.