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그래픽 모양

Assistant Professor of Physics Education

Department of Science Education

Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea

Email: yeonjooko1@jejunu.ac.kr | yeonjooko1@gmail.com

YEONJOO KO

Education

Education​

Ph.D., Science Education

Ewha Womans University (EWHA), Seoul, Korea

M.Ed.Learning, Design, and Technology

Department of Career and Information Studies

The University of Georgia at Athens (UGA), GA, USA

B.S., Physics Education (Graduated first class honor)

Dual Major: General Science Education 

Ewha Womans University (EWHA), Seoul, Korea

2013/03 - 2017/08 

2017/08 - 2019/08

2009/03 - 2013/02

Academic Appointments

Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor

Department of Science Education, Jeju National University

2023/09 - present

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Center for Hazard Literacy Education, Ewha Womans University

2022/06 - 2023/08

Lecturer

Department of Science Education, Ewha Womans University

2019/09 - 2023/08

Research Experience

Principle Investigator, KNRF research project

 

  • Funder: Korean National Research Foundation 

  • Project Title: Redesigning direction for integrating artificial intelligence into science education: Development and implementation of teacher education program

  • Role: Principle-Investigator (PI)

  • Funding: ₩ 210,000,000 (3-year) ($55k/year, $164k/3yr)

2022/07 - present

Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center for Hazard Literacy Education, EWHA

 

  • Funder: Korea National Research Foundation

  • Project Title: Development, implementation, and evaluation of the effectiveness of socioscientific issues program for participatory citizens
    (Aka:
    ENACT project website)

  • PI: Hyunju Lee

  • Role:

    • Developed and validated a scale measuring social responsibility for scientists and engineers

    • Implemented the ENACT program on pre-service science teachers

    • Analyzed the effectiveness of the ENACT program on STEM majors, pre-service science/technology teachers, and middle/high school students

    • Provided professional development workshops for secondary teachers

    • Managed weekly meetings and mentoring program etc.

2021/01 - 2022/06

Co-Investigator, UK-South Korea Connection Grants

 

  • Funder: UK Economic and Social Research Council

  • Project: Exploring directions for post-pandemic disaster education through interdisciplinary collaboration between the UK and South Korea
    (PI:
     Wonyong Park, University of Southhampton, UK)

  • Role: Analyzed the Korean National curriculum and textbooks regarding disasters education; managed the Korean version of the website
     

2022/01 - present

Research Fellow, Chuncheon National University of Education

 

  • Funder: Korea National Research Foundation

  • Project: Visual representation in science project (PI: Hyegyeong Yoon)

  • Role: Investigated preservice science teachers’ use of visual representation in Physics teaching; developed virtual reality/augmented reality based science lesson plans

2020/08 - 2022/02

Research Fellow, College of Education, EWHA

 

  • Funder: Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity 

  • Project 1: Artificial Intelligence-based STEAM education (PI: Hyojung Kim) 

  • Project 2: Teacher competency for integrated education (PI: Jae Young Chung)

2019/10 - 2021/01

​Graduate Researcher/Research Assistant, RAIL Lab & Dept. of CIS, UGA
 

  • Funder: National Institute of Health (NIH)

  • Project: STELLAR project for clinical research coordinators
    (PIs: Ikseon Choi, UGA & Linda McCauley, Emory University)
    ​​

  • Project: SAVE4Youth: A Scenario-based Authentic Virtual Environment (SAVE) 
    for child pedestrian safety education (PI: Ikseon Choi)​​

  • ​Funder: UGA–Augusta Medical Partnership (PI: Janette Hill)

  • Project: UGA-Augusta medical school curriculum revision

2017/08 - 2019/05

Research Assistant, Department of Science Education, EWHA

  • Funder: Australian and Korean Foundation Grant

  • Project: Exploring Australian and Korean students' visual representations
    (PI: Mihye Won, Curtin University)

  • Funder: Korea National Research Foundation

  • Project 1: Development and implementation of instructional strategies for SSI
  • Project 2: Development of SSI-PCK framework and examined interaction in PCK
    (PI: Hyunju Lee)​​

  • Funder: World Class University (WCU)

  • Project: ​Development of scientific literacy for global citizens in the 21st century
    (PI: Kyunghee Choi)

  • Funder: Korea Education and Research Information Science (KERIS)

  • Project: Development/implementation of instructional models for science digital textbook (PI: Hyunju Lee)

2013/03 - 2017/08

Research Experience

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, Department of Science Education, EWHA

  • Undergraduate courses

    • 35548 Theoretical Foundation of Teaching Integrated Science 
      (Overall evaluation: 5.00/5.00, 4.98/5.00, 4.98/5.00, 4.88/5.00, 4.84/5.00, 4.84/5.00, 4.82/5.00)

    • 35549 General Science Curricular Materials & Teaching Methods 
      (Overall evaluation: 5.00/5.00, 4.97/5.00, 4.95/5.00, 4.91/5.00, 4.85/5.00, 4.83/5.00, 4.82/5.00, 4.61/5.00)

2019/08 - present

Co-facilitator, Department of Science Education, EWHA

2020/12 - present

Co-Instructor, Department of Career and Information Studies, UGA

 

  • Graduate courses: Co-designed and facilitated with Dr. Janette Hill

    • EDIT 6100E Introduction to Instructional Technology: Fall 2018 

    • EDIT 8100 Foundations in Learning, Design, and Technology: Fall 2018

2018/08 - 2018/12

Other Professional Experience

Editorial Assistant, Journal of Research in Curriculum and Instruction (Korean) 

 

  • Sponsored by Research Institute of Curriculum and Instruction

    • Contacted the editorial boards, reviewers, applicants, and publishers

    • Managed the JAMS online journal submission website of JRCI

    • Reviewed and edited the manuscripts to be published

2020/01 - 2021/01

Editorial Assistant, Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (Korean) 

  • Sponsored by The Korean Association for Qualitative Inquiry

    • Contacted the editorial boards, reviewers, applicants, and publishers

    • Reviewed and edited the manuscripts to be published

2015/01 - 2016/12

Teachng Experience

Publications and Presentations

Refereed Journal Articles

Note. [SSCI]: Social Science Citation Index, [SCOPUS]; [KCI]: Korean Citation Index

# In preparation / under review

 

Liu, C., So, W. W.-M., Chen, Y., Antuni, W., Chiu, W. K. S., Ko, Y., Hsu, Y.-S., Lee, H., Tan, A. L., & Tho, S. W. (under review). School students’ aspirations for STEM careers: the influence of self-efficacy, parental expectations, outcome expectations, and perceptions of STEM professionals. Submitted to International Journal of STEM Education. [SSCI]

 

Kim, H., Shim, H., Lee, H., & Ko, Y. (under review). Factors affecting student learning outcomes in the context of science and art integrated program with artificial intelligence (AI). International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. [SSCI]

# Published

Park, W., Lee, H., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2023). ‘Safety’ and ‘integration’: Examining the introduction of disaster in the science curriculum in South Korea. Journal of Curriculum Studies. [SSCI].

Hwang, Y., Ko, Y., Shim, S. S., Ok, S.-Y., & Lee, H. (2023). Promoting engineering students’ social responsibility and willingness to act on socioscientific issues. International Journal of STEM Education, 10(11). doi:10.1186/s40594-023-00402-1 [SSCI]

Ko, Y., Choi, Y., & Lee, H. (2022). Secondary school students’ understanding of socioscientific issues and their views of social responsibility of STEM professionals through ENACT project. Journal of Research in Curriculum and Instruction, 26(6), 556-572. [KCI]

Lee, H., & Ko, Y. (2022). Engineering students’ ethical sensitivity on artificial intelligence. Journal of Engineering Education Research, 25(6), 23-37. [KCI]

Ko, Y., Shim, S. S., Hwang, Y., Choi, Y., Ok, S.-Y., Nam, C.-H., & Lee, H. (2022). Exploring the views of college students in STEM fields on the social responsibility of scientists and engineers. Journal of Engineering Education Research, 25(2), 42-56. [KCI]


Lee, H., Ko, Y., Hong, J. (2022). ENACT project: Promoting pre-service science teachers’ views on the social responsibility of scientists and engineers. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 42(1), 111-125. [KCI]

Ko, Y., Shim, S., & Lee, H. (2021). Development and validation of a scale to measure views of social responsibility of scientists and engineers (VSRoSE). International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. [SSCI]

Yoon, J., Ko, Y., Lee, H. (2021). Virtual and open integration of culture for education (VOICE) with science teacher candidates from Korea during COVID-19. Asian-Pacific Science Education. [SCOPUS]

Kim, G., Ok, S., Lee, H., Ko, Y., Hwang, Y. (2021). A case study of an ENACT model-based engineering design course for fostering social responsibility of engineers. Journal of Engineering Education Research, 24(6), 3-19. [KCI]


Choi, Y., Ko, Y., Hong, Y., Lee, H., & Hwang, Y. (2021). Changes of pre-service technology teachers’ views and educational needs on social responsibility of science/technology/engineering through
the ENACT program
. Journal of Research in Curriculum and Instruction, 25(2), 1-13. [KCI]


Jo, S., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2021). Patterns of student evaluation on media information regarding socioscientific issues. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 41(1), 59-70. [KCI]

 

Park, S., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2020). Video production as an instructional strategy for socioscientific issues: Its impact on middle school students’ media literacy and understanding of SSI. Journal of Research in Curriculum and Instruction, 24(5), 511-522.

 

Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2020). Analyzing college students’ dialogic argumentation in the context of nanotechnology issues based on idiocentrism and allocentrism. Journal of the Korean Chemical Society, 64(5), 291-303. [KCI]

 

Kim, G., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2020). The effects of community-based socioscientific issues program (SSI-COMM) on promoting students’ sense of place and character as citizens. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 18, 399-418. Doi:10.1007/s10763-019-09976-1 [SSCI, Impact factor: 2.073]

 

Choi, J., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2019). Comparative analysis of socioscientific issues presented in the 2015 integrated science and social studies textbooks. Journal of Learner-centered Curriculum and Instruction, 19(16), 1233-1256. [KCI]

Rojewski, J. W., Choi, I., Hill, J., Ko, Y., Walters, K. L., Kwon, S. J., & McCauley, L. (2019). Career orientation and perceived professional competence among clinical research coordinators. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 3(5), 234-244 doi: 10.1017/cts.2019.385. [Impact Factor=1.954]

 

Park, D., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2018). Flipped learning in socioscientific issues instruction: Its impact on middle school students’ key competencies and character development as citizens. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 38(4), 467-480. [KCI]

Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2017). Comparison of the effects of socioscientific issues instruction on promoting college students’ character and values: Based on idiocentrism and allocentrism. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 37(3), 395-405. [KCI]

Ko, Y., Kim, Y., Lee, H., & Lim, K. (2017). Research trends in teacher learning community in Korea: A thematic analysis of Korean journal publications. Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction, 17(4), 429-457. [KCI]

 

Kim, J., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2017). Enhancing student key competencies through socioscientific issues instruction. Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction, 17(8), 339-362. [KCI]

Park, S., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2017). Students’ perception on the effects of the SSI instruction using digital storytelling approaches. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 37(1), 181-192. [KCI]

Kim, J., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2016). Effects of socioscientific issues instruction on elementary school students’ character and values as global citizens. The Journal of Elementary Education, 29(3), 1-25. [KCI]

Ko, Y., Choi, Y., & Lee, H. (2015). Development of an analytical framework for dialogic argumentation in the context of socioscientific issues: Based on discourse clusters and schemes. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 35(3), 509-521. [KCI]

 

Ko, Y., Lee, H., & Kim, S.-W. (2015). Gender differences of physics major college students’ conceptual understanding and its degree of certainty in the subject of quantum mechanics. New Physics: Sae Mulli, 65(8), 812-824. [SCOPUS, KCI]

 

Lee, H., Choi, Y., & Ko, Y. (2015). Effects of collective intelligence-based SSI instruction on promoting middle school students’ key competencies as citizens. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 35(3), 431-442. [KCI]​

 

Lee, H., Choi, Y., & Ko, Y. (2014). Designing collective intelligence-based instructional models for teaching socioscientific issues. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 34(6), 523-534. [KCI]

 

Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2014). Pre-service science teachers’ understanding of students’ misconceptions in physics and perceptions on “teacher as a researcher” through the research experience. Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education, 34(5), 449-457. [KCI]

Conference Presentations

Ko, Y., Lee, H., & Hong, J. (2022, March). ENACT project: Promoting pre-service science teachers’ perceptions on social responsibility of scientists and engineers. Paper presented at the 95th annual meeting of NARST: Unity and inclusion for global scientific literacy: Invite as a community, unite as a community, Vancouver, BC.


Lee, H., Choi, Y., Ok, S.-Y., Nam, C.-N., Shim, S. S., Hwang, Y., Ko, Y., & Lee, K. (2022, March). Exploring the perception of college students in STEM fields on social responsibility of scientists and engineers. Paper presented at the 95th annual meeting of NARST: Unity and inclusion for global scientific literacy: Invite as a community, unite as a community, Vancouver, BC.


Cho, Y. S., Hwang, Y., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2022, January). Effects of AI-integrated science classes on promoting middle school students’ attitudes towards AI technology and data literacy. [Outstanding Presentation Award], Poster presentation, The 80th KASE Academic Conference, online conference.

Ko, Y.Shim, S., & Lee, H. (2021, July). Development of a scale to measure views of social responsibility and analysis of STEM college students’ views on social responsibility. Panel presentation, The 80th KASE Academic Conference, online conference.

Hwang, Y., Ko, Y.& Lee, H. (2021, July). ENACT project for STEM college majors: Its design and cases. Panel presentation, The 80th KASE Academic Conference, online conference.

Hwang, Y., Choi, Y., Ok, S., Nam, C.-H., Ko, Y., Lee, H., Lee, K., & Hong, J. (2021, July). Effects of ENACT-based program on college students’ social responsibility of scientists and engineers. Panel presentation, The 80th KASE Academic Conference, online conference.
 

Ko, Y., & Yoon, H. (2021, June). Characteristics of interaction using visual representation in pre-service teachers' physics teaching. Oral presentation, International Science Education Conference (ISEC) 2021, Singapore, online conference. 

Ko, Y., Shim, S., & Lee, H. (2021, February). Development and validation of a scale of social responsibility for scientists and engineers. Oral presentation, International Organization for Science and Technology Education (IOSTE) 2020, online conference.

 

Ko, Y. (2021, January). Discussion on teacher perceptions and practices in inclusive science education. General Discussion, Korean Association for Science Education 2021, online conference.

 

Ko, Y., Shim, S., & Lee, H. (2020, September). Development and validation of questionnaire to measure social responsibility of STEM professionals. Symposium presentation, 2020 Korean Society for Engineering Education, Jeju, Korea.

 

Choi, I., Kwon, S., Walters, K., & Ko, Y. (2019, October). A scenario-based authentic virtual environment (SAVE) for child pedestrian safety education: Its design and learning benefits. [Outstanding Practice Award sponsored by the Design & Development Division], Paper accepted for Featured Research Session at the annual conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Las Vegas, NV.

Hill, J., Walters, K., Ko, Y., Kwon, S. J., Rojewski, J., Choi, I., Fisher, E., & McCauley, L. (2019, June). Who are these people? Using progressive personas to guide STELLAR development. Roundtable, EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ko, Y. (2019, May). “Poco a poco”: Autoethnographic writing on a journey to become a lifelong music learner. Panel presentation, The Fifteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Choi, I., Kwon, S., Walters, K., Ko, Y., Hill, J., Rojewski, J., & McCauley, L. (2019, February). Conceptual framework of the self-directed training, education, life-long learning advancement resource system. Poster presentation, The 2nd Annual Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Conference, Pine Mountain, GA.

Hill, J., Walters, K., Ko, Y., Kwon, S., Rojewski, J., Fisher, E., Choi, I., & McCauley, L. (2019, February). Who are these people? Creating personas to guide STELLAR development. Poster presentation, The 2nd Annual Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Conference, Pine Mountain, GA.

 

Rojewski, J., Ko, Y., Kwon, S., Walters, K., Hill, J. Fisher, E., Choi, I., & McCauley, L. (2019, February). Typology of clinical research coordinators using career orientations and perceived professional competence. Poster presentation, The 2nd Annual Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Conference, Pine Mountain, GA.

 

Kwon, S., Walters, K., Ko, Y., Melendez, L., Wilson, C., Yang, T., Cho, R., Han, K., Chung, C., Kim, D., Song, S., & Choi, I. (2018, October). A scenario-based virtual reality (VR) learning environment for child pedestrian safety education. [Outstanding Award in Design and Development Division], Design and Development Showcase, The annual Association for Educational Communications and Technology conference, Kansas City, MO.

 

Walters, K., Kwon, S., Ko, Y., Melendez, L., Wilson, C., Yang, T., Cho, R., Han, K., Chung, C., Kim, D., Song, S., & Choi, I. (2018, April). SAVE4Youth: Scenario-based Virtual Reality (VR) Learning Environment for Child Pedestrian Safety Education. Poster Presentation, IRIS 2018: Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium, Athens, GA.

 

Ko, Y., Kim, Y., & Lim, K. (2016, July). Research trends in teacher learning community in Korea: Implications on science education. Poster presentation, The 70th KASE Academic Conference, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea.

 

Park, D., Ko, Y., Lee, H. (2016, July). The effects of a flipped learning based SSI instruction on student key competencies. Poster presentation, The 70th KASE Academic Conference, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea.

 

Park, S., Ko, Y., Lee, H. (2016, July). Student perceptions of the effects of SSI program using a digital storytelling approach. Poster presentation, The 70th KASE Academic Conference, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea.

 

Kim, J., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2016, July). The effects of socioscientific issues instruction on elementary school students’ character and values as global citizens. Paper presented at the 70th Meeting of KASE, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea.

Ko, Y., Choi, Y., & Lee, H. (2016, April). A comparison of college students’ character development and socioscientific argumentation based on their orientations: Individualism-collectivism. Paper presented at the 89th annual meeting of NARST: Toward equity and justice: Many different voices, cultures, and languages in science education research for quality science learning and teaching, Baltimore, MD.

 

Mun, K., Choi, Y., Mun, J., & Ko, Y. (2015, October). Methodological research trends of science education in Korea. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference of East-Asian Association for Science Education: Promoting Science Education Reform through Research, Beijing Normal University, China.

 

Ko, Y., Choi, Y., & Lee, H. (2015, July). Analysis of patterns of college students’ socioscientific argumentation based on their orientations. Paper presented at the 68th Meeting of KASE, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea.

Ko, Y., Lee, H., & Choi, Y. (2015, April). Development of framework for assessing the quality of socioscientific argumentation. Paper presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of NARST: Becoming Next Generation Science Educators in an Era of Global Science Education Reform, Chicago, IL.

Choi, Y., Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2015, April). Enhancing Korean middle school students’ 21st century skills through collective intelligence based SSI instruction. Paper presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of NARST: Becoming Next Generation Science Educators in an Era of Global Science Education Reform, Chicago, IL.

 

Ko, Y., & Kim, S.-W. (2015, April). Exploring the gender difference in Korean university students’ conceptual understanding and confidence on Quantum Mechanics. Paper presented at 2015 Korean Physical Society Spring (KPS) Meeting, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea.

 

Choi, Y., Lee, H., & Ko, Y. (2014, July). Effects of collective intelligence-based SSI instruction on science gifted students’ 21st century skills and the attitudes toward science and technology. Paper presented at 2014 The 67th KASE International Conference, Chuncheon National University of Education, Chuncheon, Korea.

 

Ko, Y., Lee, H., & Choi, Y. (2014, July). Designing collective intelligence-based instructional models for teaching socioscientific issues. Poster presentation, The 67th KASE Academic Conference, Chuncheon National University of Education, Chuncheon, Korea.

 

Ko, Y., & Lee, H. (2014, April). Promoting Korean pre-service science teachers’ understanding of students’ misconceptions in Physics through the research experience. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of NARST: A worldwide organization for improving science teaching and learning through research, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Lee, H., & Ko, Y. (2014, April). Enhancing science teachers’ understanding of teaching socioscientific issues through collaborative action research. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of NARST: A worldwide organization for improving science teaching and learning through research, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Ko, Y., Kim, E., Lee, H., & Noh, J. (2013, July). Development and implementation of instructional models for digital textbook-based science teaching. Poster presentation, The 3rd International Conference of East-Asian Association for Science Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China.

Publications and Presentations

Scholarships and Awards​

Scholarships

  • Samsung Card Scholarship, Ewha Womans University, 2016

  • International Committee Scholarships, NARST, 2014, 2015

  • Scholarship for New Excellent Graduate Students, Ewha Womans University, 2013

  • Scholarship for Excellent Undergraduate Students, Ewha Womans University, 2009 - 2012

Awards

  • Ewha Teaching Excellence Award, Ewha Womans University, 2023

  • Outstanding Presentation Award, KASE, 2022

  • Outstanding Practice Award sponsored by the Design & Development Division, AECT, 2019

  • Design and Development Showcase Outstanding Award, AECT, 2018

  • Best Paper Award Nominee, Annual conference of NARST, 2014

Scholarships and Awards
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