Educational Psychology Studies on the Evaluation Behaviors in a Classroom by the Japanese Teachers
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15530422
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Chubu University Department of Humanities (2004)
Nagoya University (2003) |
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Principal Investigator |
KAJITA Masami Chubu University, Department of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (70047231)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Keywords | educational evaluation / monitoring / field-study / impression formation / deductive thinking / inductive thinking / top-down / bottom-up / テスト / 観点別評価 / 指導要録 / 指導目標 |
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| Research Abstract |
Past two years, this research was done on the educational evaluation behaviors by the classroom teachers in Japan. Research methods used in these studies were observation method, interview method and questionnaires which were applied to the school teachers, especially, elementary school teachers and junior high school teachers. Typically, educational evaluation by the teachers in schools were categorized as follows: a) monitoring behaviors on teaching-learning processes, b)achievement testing in a classroom, c)school report which was sent to children's family, and e) annual report of classroom achievement which was usually named as formal educational evaluation. These studies clarified following results and new point of views which will be expected to produce a new development of the educational evaluation studies.
1) In the beginning, the studies examined the literal meaning on evaluation, educational evaluation, rating, and soon. Then the studies compared this literal meaning with act
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ual usage by Japanese teachers in. a classroom.
2) Japanese teachers met with lot of difficulties in the educational evaluation situations. One of main reasons was that they attempted to achieve the high level of validity, reliability and objectivity which were the basic conditions of educational evaluation. However, the second reason came from the educational evaluation processes themselves. as follows.
3) Ordinarily, the form of educational evaluation in a Japanese classroom consists of several categories of educational achievement, for instance, knowledge and understanding, thinking ability, learning motivation, learning skills and so on. These evaluation categories are abstract concept in nature which is produced by the educational professionals. In evaluation activities, teachers must find suitable child's episodes which are correspond with the abstract categories of educational evaluation. These matching activities are just thinking processes in nature.
4) This thinking process consists of two different kinds of thin ing. The one is deductive thinking, and the other is inductive thinking. Every teacher has to integrate this different thinking activity to do educational evaluation in classroom. This is one of the most difficult parts of teaching activities.
5) Finally, child's self evaluation is very important and is necessary to research its nature and characteristics. Less
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Research Products
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[Book] 学びの教育文化誌2003
Author(s)
梶田正巳
Total Pages
257
Publisher
ナカニシヤ出版
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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