발명교육 활성화 지수를 이용한 발명교실 운영실태 분석

Abstract

We investigated the current status of all invention classes setting up across the nation and analyzed their actual state of operation by using an invention education activation index in this study. The results of the analyses are as follows: First, the analyzing results on classifying into four categories, input, process, output and performance, showed that the areas of both process and output were performed at the level almost proportional to input result. The area of performance, however, was poor because many invention classes of about 80% were operated in elementary and middle schools that were composed entirely primitive young students who regarded as difficult things for a patent application. In addition, students in high school mostly gave up making a patent application, too, because of their preparations for entering into university. Second, we confirmed that the invention education activation index of invention classes in local self-governing bodies, which were supported very well for manpower, budget, and administrative elements, was higher than that of other local self-governing bodies lacking a support. Third, the performance in national invention contests of students in provincial areas, who have received relatively less private education, was better than that of students in metropolitan cities. Therefore, the invention education may be one of methods for the education of creative manpower.