The purpose of this study was to analyze the hierarchical effects of individual and organizational variables on elementary school teachers' lifelong learning competence. The participants in this study comprised 1,077 teachers in service in 70 public elementary schools in Seoul, Korea. In this study, 70 schools were sampled using multi-stage stratified sampling, and 10 to 20 teachers were randomly selected for each school. The collected data was analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling. There are three major findings. First, gender, lifelong learning experience, learning agility, learning motivation, and positive psychological capital among the individual variables had meaningful positive effects on lifelong learning competence. Second, knowledge sharing among the organizational variables had meaningful influence on lifelong learning competence. Finally, interactions between gender and knowledge sharing and between learning motivation and learning organization culture had statistically meaningful effects.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental characteristics of creative thinking ability and creative personality of elementary school children in Korea. 2,782 participants of elementary school children, who were 6 to 11 years old, were randomly sampled nationwide in this study. Then, the creativity test was administrated to identify the developmental characteristics of creative thinking ability and creative personality. The data were analyzed according to total scores and factor score. The developmental trends of creativity were identified as the result of statistical analysis. It was thought that these results will give some implications to identify the individual differences in creativity, giftedness and to develop the educational program for fostering children's creativity.
The purpose of this study was to examine the dual mediating effect of meta-cognition support psychological class environment(MSPCE) and self-directed learning ability (SOLA) in the relation between creativity and future creative confluence competency (F3C). Data were collected from 511 college students in Seoul, South Korea. PROCESS macro by Hayes (2013) was used to analyze the collected data. There are two major findings. First, positive correlations were noted among creativity, F3C, MSPCE, and SOLA Second, MSPCE and SOLA showed the partial dual mediating effect in the relation between the creativity and F3C of college students. The study results indicate that MSPCE must be established and an environment and education plan for enhancing SOLA should be developed to improve F3C, which is a key competency in future society.
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