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초록

In the current educational field, there has been a growing interest in integrative competency education that encompasses both social skills and personality as well as basic learning capacities as a goal to foster future talents. In this situation, this study investigates the applicability of design thinking-based course as an appropriate strategy for implementing competency education. Design thinking-based course is expected to be a suitable teaching and learning method to develop core competencies required for future society, because it is devised to enable students to learn about both cognitive and non-cognitive areas, such as knowledge and technology as well as consideration of others and interpersonal relationship, through the process of solving various problems of daily life. A comparative experimental study was conducted on two student groups to examine the effect of design thinking-based course on competency building. The participants of this study were 99 engineering college students enrolled in C university located in Seoul, Korea. 47 students of experiment group were taking a design thinking-based course, while 52 students of control group were taking a traditional lecture-based course. In this study, the learning effect on empathy ability, collaborative ability, and problem solving ability, which are sub-factors of core competencies, were measured and compared. As results of the study, the design thinking-based course showed statistically significant improvement in all areas, whereas the statistically significant improvement was not observed in the lecture-based course. The results suggest that design thinking-based course can be an effective teaching and learning strategy for competency education and can be a meaningful source for future-oriented education reforms.

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