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Analysis on Fitness of Contents Selected for Data Structure Education in Elementary School Curriculum

초등교육과정에서 자료구조 교육을 위한 내용 선정의 적합성 조사 분석

  • Mun, Seong-Yun (Department of Computer Education, Korea Natl. University of Edu) ;
  • Shin, Soo-Bum (Department of Computer Education, Gong-Ju Natl. University of Edu)
  • Received : 2019.11.29
  • Accepted : 2019.12.09
  • Published : 2020.02.29
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Abstract

This study conducted a comparative analysis on domestic and foreign computer science curriculum, in order to introduce the data structure education as a core foundation of computer science. The findings show that the scope and level of data structure contents included in elementary school software education are poorer than those in U.S.A and England. To resolve such a problem, it selected some data structure education factors and a Delphi survey about the importance of contents and the fitness of education periods were administered to experts. Although they responded that 'text information', 'array', 'stack' and 'queue' for linear structures', and 'tree' for non-linear structures are important, their opinions were different in education periods by its factors. The generalization of the findings may be limited, given that the analysis was based on the survey of some experts, but this study has an implication, in that it provides important information for improving elementary school software curriculum for the introduction of data structures.

컴퓨터과학의 핵심적인 기초가 되는 자료구조 교육을 도입하기 위해 국내외 컴퓨터과학 교육과정을 비교·분석하였다. 그 결과 초등학교 소프트웨어 교육에 포함된 자료구조 관련 내용이 미국과 영국에 비해 범위와 수준이 미흡한 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 자료구조 교육 요소를 선정하고 전문가들을 대상으로 내용의 중요도와 교육 시기의 적절성에 대한 델파이 설문 조사를 하였다. 그 결과 연구자가 제시한 자료구조의 교육 요소에서 '문자 정보', 선형구조의 '배열', '스택', '큐', 비선형구조의 '트리'에 대해 중요하다고 응답하였으나 교육 요소별 교육 시기는 전문가마다 의견이 달랐다. 일부 전문가들을 대상으로 조사한 결과를 분석의 근거로 삼았다는 점에서 결과를 일반화 하는데 한계가 있지만 자료구조 도입을 위한 초등학교 소프트웨어 교육과정개선의 중요한 정보를 제공한다는 점에서 의의를 찾을 수 있다.

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