Smart Phone Application Program Development for Self-Directed Learning and Attention Training

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between a learner's attention and self-directed learning ability, personality, and intelligence in order to develop an attention training smart phone application for improving the learner's ability to focus. Research subjects were high school students in Gyunggido and Jeonlabukdo, and their attention, personality, intelligence, and self-directed learning ability were tested. The inter-variable correlation was analyzed by the SPSS 17.0 statistics program. The results were as follows: a learner's attention was significantly correlated with diligence in personality, arithmetic ability, and number concept for intelligence and test-taking skills; for class concentration, problem solving skills in self-directed learning ability was significant. Based on this analysis, the research developed an attention training smart phone application in order to improve a learner's ability to focus. The program developed from this research serves to provide a scholastic motivation in two areas; it has a vitalizing function which relieves the learner from anxiety that comes from working towards a goal, and a directional function that leads the learner in the right direction in terms of his behavior and response.