The purpose of this study is to examine the other areas' bibliography of study to be cited in the process of academic activities by researchers of Korea's educational technology area, and based on that, to provide the basic data to be helpful in perfo...
The purpose of this study is to examine the other areas' bibliography of study to be cited in the process of academic activities by researchers of Korea's educational technology area, and based on that, to provide the basic data to be helpful in performing the research of same subject in the future as well as grasping of current status in this area.
Research subjects are as follows. 1) How is the distribution of cited bibliography by other areas of study and detailed academic areas to be cited in Korea's educational technology research ? 2) How is the distribution of cited year by other areas of study and detailed academic areas to be cited in Korea's educational technology research ? 3) How is the distribution of cited age by the bibliography of other study areas to be cited in Korea's educational technology research ? 4) How is the distribution of cited age by other areas of study and detailed academic areas to be cited in Korea's educational technology research ? 5) How is the distribution by the bibliography type of other study areas to be cited in Korea's educational technology research ? 6) How is the distribution by the bibliography type of other study areas and the cited age to be cited in Korea's educational technology research ?
In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the 5,508 volumes, citing the other areas of study among the cited bibliographies of the theses issued from 2006 to 2010 year, were surveyed with targeting 「The Research of Educational Technology」of The Korean Society for Educational Technology's journal and 「The Study of Educational Information and Media」 of Korean Association for Educational Information and Media.
The results of findings were as follows.
First, the area of social sciences and pedagogy accounted for 75.2% from the 8 study areas separated in this study, and the curriculum of educational psychology, psychological science, business administration and computer science captured 56.7% among 37 areas of detailed studies.
Second, it was confirmed that the citation in the area of social sciences and pedagogy was continued by year, and the citation in the curriculum of educational psychology, psychological science, business administration and computer science was continued by year, too.
Third, among the bibliographies of the other areas of study to be cited from Korea's educational technology, about half of them(2,872 vol. 52.1%) were confirmed that the time of publication was within 10 years.
Fourth, the half-life of pedagogy and educational technology areas was an average of 10 years or less, respectively, and that of social sciences and cultural sciences areas was an average of 15 years or less, respectively. When the half-life of top five in the area of detailed studies was reviewed, the half-life of bibliography in the curriculum areas of computer science was less than 10 years, respectively, and that of education psychology and business areas less than 15 years, and that of psychological science areas an average of 20 years or less, which was confirmed.
Fifth, journals and books were accounted for 45.0% and 41.3% respectively, and thesis for 4.4%, collection of dissertations in the academic conference for 3.6%, electronic materials for 2.5%, and research reports for 2.5%, which meant to adjoin the fruition of research in other studies areas.
Sixth, the half-life of electronic materials, research reports and newspapers was an average of 5 years or less, respectively, and that of journals, theses, conference papers and legislation was an average of 10 years or less, and that of books was an average of 15 years or less.
Thru this study, the educational technology was cited from almost all areas of pedagogy-related studies as well as social sciences, engineering and humanities, and their dependancy and highly interdisciplinary nature of study on the bibliography of curriculum areas in educational psychology, psychological science, business administration and computer science were confirmed. By examining the linkages of education technology and other academic studies, the differences of researchers' information needs and demand forecasts are possible.
With expanding the scope and duration of surveyed target thru the analysis methods of cited bibliography utilizing in this study, the necessity of follow-up study to analyze the comprehensive trend from the beginning of educational technology to be introduced until now is suggested.