Sun Hee Back
Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology Department of Education Korea University
Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests include motivation and its cognitive and emotional consequence such as engagement, achievement and happiness. In order to increase learners’ satisfaction and achievement, I would like to (1) figure out the impact of motivation on them, and (2) investigate individual and environmental factors to develop motivation. I am especially interested in the way to increase learner’s initiative from SDT perspective, and environmental support including school and family as well as the society. The ultimate purpose of my research is helping learners to be self-regulated with enjoyment in learning.
EDUCATION
2011.03 – Present Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology, Korea University 2005.08 – 2007. 08 M.A. in Educational Psychology, Korea University 2000.03 – 2005.02 B.A. in Accounting, Dongguk University
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
International Journals
Lee, S., Moon, K., Puig, A., Cho, E., Lee, S., Back, S., & Woo, Y. (2008). Development and initial psychometrics of the Korean Mood State Inventory. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 41(1), 42-50.
Domestic Journals
Back, S., Cho, E., Woo, Y., Chung, Y., Lee, S., & Kim, S. (2007). The effects of rewards, types of evaluator, and peer support on creative performance. Korean Journal of Educational Methodology Studies, 19(1), 59-76.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
International Conferences
Han, C., Lee, S., Lee, M., Hwang, S., Lee, W., Lim, K., Woo, Y., Back, S., So, Y., & Kim, S. (2006, June). The neural mechanism of ‘Test Effect’: An fMRI study of ‘feeling of being evaluated.’ Poster session presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy. Hwang, S., Lee, W., So, Y., Lee, M., Han, C., Lim, K., Woo, Y., Lee, S., Back, S., Yoon, M., Kang, E., Lee, J., & Kim, S. (2006, June). Effect of self-efficacy on distinct neural activation during competition. Poster session presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
1/4 Lee, W., Back, S., Hwang, S., Lim, K., Han, C., Woo, Y., Lee, S., Lee, M., So, Y., Yoon, M., & Kim, S. (2006, June). Neural basis of choice behavior. Poster session presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy. Lee, M., Han, C., Hwang, S., Lim, K., Lee, W., So, Y., Woo, Y., Lee, S., Back, S., Khang, H., Ryu, K., Lim, S., & Kim, S. (2006, June). Comparison of brain activation during absolute versus normative assessment. Poster session presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy. Lim, K., Woo, Y., Hwang, S., Lee, W., So, Y., Lee, M., Han, C., Lee, S., Back, S., & Kim, S. (2006, June). Distinct neural substrates during competition for achievement goal orientation. Poster session presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy. So, Y., Hwang, S., Lee, W., Han, C., Lim, K., Woo, Y., Lee, S., Back, S., Lee, J., Kang, E., & Kim, S. (2006, June). Neuroanatomical correlates of individual difference in arithmetic ability. Poster session presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy. So, Y., Lee, S., Back, S., Woo, Y., Cho, E., Chung, Y., Han, C., Lim, K., Lee, W., Kim, S.(2006).
Domestic Conferences
Han, C., Hwang, S., So, Y., Lee, M., Lim, K., Lee, W., Lee, S., Back, S., Woo, Y., Yoon, M., Kim, S. (2006, February). Enhancing learners’ motivation through the Intelligent Tutoring System. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Human Computer Interaction, Korea. Lee, W., Back, S,. Hwang, S., Han, C., Lim, K., Lee, M., So, Y., Lee, S., Woo, Y., Yoon, M., & Kim, S. (2006, June). Individual differences in the neural substrate of choice. Poster session presented at the conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science, Seoul, Korea. Lee, M., Hwang, S., Han, C., Lee, W., Lim, K., Lee, S., Back, S., Woo, Y., Kim, S. (2006, November). Developing adaptive teachable agent considering learners’ cognitive and motivational features: Developing KORI. Paper presented at the meeting of the Korean Educational Psychology Association, Seoul, Korea. Back, S., Woo, Y., Cho, E., Lim, K., So, Y., Lee, S., Chung, Y., Han, C., Lee, W., & Kim, S. (2007, January). The effects of peer evaluation on creative performance. Paper presented at the meeting of the Korean Educational Psychology Association, Seoul, Korea. Lee, S., Chung, Y., Cho, E., So, Y., Back, S., Woo, Y., Han, C., Lim, K., Lee, W., & Kim, S. (2007, January). Relationship between motivation, task interest and comprehension depending on presence of reward. Paper presented at the meeting of the Korean Educational Psychology Association, Seoul, Korea. Back, S., Kim, S. (2008). The effect of task choice and performance goal orientation on perceived competence and task interest. Paper presented at the meeting of the Korean Educational Psychology Association, Seoul, Korea.
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Awards
Award for outstanding poster, The Korean Society for Cognitive Science, 2003 Award for the Best Student Research Paper, Brain Korea 21, Korea University, 2007
Scholarship
Academic Honors, Dongguk University, 2002(1) Academic Scholarship, BrainKorea21, 2006(1), 2006(2) Academic Scholarship, Korea Research Foundation, 2007(1), 2011(2)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Experience
2006.03 – 2007.02 Research Assistant, Korea Research Foundation, Korea University (BK21) - Creativity research with teacher support, peer support and reward 2006.10 – 2007.06 Research Assistant, Center for Brain-based Learning Science, Korea University - Involved in diverse field experiments and fMRI studies : Learning environments such as task choice, evaluation, reward etc. : Individual difference such as achievement goals, self-efficacy etc. - Participated in the development of a teachable agent KORI 2007.03 – 2007.09 Teaching Assistance, for Prof. Sung-il Kim, Department of Education, Korea University 2011.03 – 현재 Research Assistant, Brain and Motivation Research Institute (bMRI), Korea University - Designing, collecting, and analyzing survey and longitudinal data with statistical packages such as SPSS and AMOS - Designing fMRI studies on motivation and emotion - Analyzing brain data using SPM 2011.03 – 현재 Research Assistant, The World Class University (WCU) Project Group, Korea University - The National Project Towards Building World Class Universities (WCU), Type 2: Recruiting Foreign Scholars to Existing Academic Programs, Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, April 2009 – August 2013 (Principal Investigator : Mimi Bong), Project Title : Interdisciplinary Consolidation of Motivation and Emotion Research - Student Motivation in Learning Environments Scale (SMILES) – involved in the development of Academic self-regulation scale - Investigating teachers’ comments and behaviors that affect students’ motivation, using semi-structured interview and causal predominance between self-efficacy and achievement goal 2011.09 – 2012.02 Teaching Assistance, for Prof. Sung-il Kim, Department of Education, Korea University
Job Experience
2003.11 – 2004.01 8-week Co-op Work Placement at Shane Global Village English Center, in Toronto, Canada - Designing and practicing after school programs
3/4 2008. 02 – 2010.11 Assistant, Human Resource Department, Samsung Heavy Industry - Designing and practicing Education program : Education program for new employees (corporate culture, job training) : Off the Job Training for outstanding employees (Business English program) : Children education for employee’s welfare (after school education program)
AFFILIATIONS
2005 – Present Student member, Korean Educational Psychology Association 2005 – Present Student member, Korean Association of Educational Methodology Studies 2012 – Present Student member, American Educational Research Association
OTHERS
24 weeks course in the ESL Program at Shane Global Village English Center, in Toronto, Canada 8 weeks course in the Business English Program at Shane Global Village English Center, in Toronto, Canada Microsoft office specialist certification (Core) – Excel, Powerpoint, Word.
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