This study defines programs used for conducting researches in universities for rearing up creative talents appropriate for the knowledge-based society as the ‘programs for reinforcing creative research competence’, and intends to develop such prog...
This study defines programs used for conducting researches in universities for rearing up creative talents appropriate for the knowledge-based society as the ‘programs for reinforcing creative research competence’, and intends to develop such programs. Therefore, this study aims to design a program by analyzing learners’ needs, which were not reflected in the past in accordance with the ADDIE instructional design model equipped with systemic and systematic procedures, improve the program quality through formative evaluations on the initially developed module proposals, and develop a program appropriate to learners. The study issues described in detail based on such study purposes are listed in the following.
First, what about are the analysis result and design of the program for reinforcing creative research competence?
Second, what about are the formative evaluation results of the initially developed module proposal for the program for reinforcing creative research competence and the final module program?
To solve such study problems, this study developed a program for reinforcing creative research competence through investigations on the preceding studies, analysis on extant data, interviews and literature reviews in accordance with the analyses, designs, developments, implementations and evaluations of ADDIE instructional design models based on the formative study methodology. The process progressed for the development of the program is described in detail as follows.
First, interviews were conducted to investigate the needs of operating agencies and learners on the ground of the preceding studies, literature reviews, extant data analyses in the analysis process, and such needs were analyzes and deduced based on the copies before interviewing, preceding studies and literature data. The needs deduced through such procedures were analyzed being related to the prior educations, reinforcements of prior workshops and orientations, systematic supports by operating agencies and cooperation with supervisors. The modules were structurized considering the progressive process of the program based on consolidated data of the needs of operating agencies and learners presented in the analysis stage and the arranged data of learners who participated in the program, and designed by selecting factors to be essentially considered to each module.
Second, literatures and extant data were reviewed based on the necessary requisites of five designed modules, and the initial proposal was developed based on such reviews. Module 1 developed and presented a supervisor’s contact guideline for the notification of the program, methods for public relations and encouraging the participations in the program, module 2 presented submission documents to be considered for the participations and developed a selection standard for the participants, and module 3 developed training data for knowledge formation related to researches, group activities, interactions with supervisors and methods for using research support funds. Module 4 developed an operation plan proposal for inspections and shares in conducting researches, and lastly, module 5 developed an evaluation standard on conducting researches and an operation plan proposal for the final evaluation meeting for sharing research fulfillment. Pros and cons of the module proposal were verified by conducting a proto-type formative evaluation subjecting learners for the implementations and evaluations of the initially developed module proposal presented in the above, the improvements were reflected on the basis of the evaluation standard, and, based on the revised modules according to such results, the finally revised modules were developed on the ground of indications deduced as the result of a feasibility verification carried out by experts.
The aforementioned study result is considered significant as follows. First, this study represents much to the designing and development of the program by identifying what is the educational support system being required in the program by reflecting learner's needs which were not reflected in the existing research programs through the development of a program for reinforcing creative research competency of university students by applying the systemic and systematic ADDIE instructional design models. Second, this study is considered meaningful as the reliability and feasibility of the program are secured as the result of implementation of the formative evaluations through learners and experts who are supposed to use the program on the ground of the data developed through systematic analysis and design processes. Further, the ‘revised module’ developed based on such process is believed to be applied to programs to cultivate creativeness for conducting researches.