Development of educational material for control and measurement in the subject area of industrial arts in junior high-schools
| Project/Area Number |
24501127
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Gunma University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | 情報教育 / 中学校・技術 / 計測と制御 / STEM / 性差 / 男女差 / プログラミング / 教材開発 / プログラミング教育 / カリキュラム・教授法開発 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We developed a set of educational material and curriculum for the course unit “Measurement and Control” of the subject area of industrial education in junior high school. In our curriculum, students write computer programs of their own that automatically control a model train. We also created questionnaire that assessed students’ awareness toward computers, STEM, and problem solving and made comparisons with their test scores, which showed substantial effects of the curriculum. We conducted factor analyses and extracted five factors, whose names were “Interests in Computers”, “Grit”, “STEM Interests”, “Self-Efficiency”, “Pride”. We discuss future directions for informatics education based on the gender contrasts in “Interests in Computers” and “Pride” against test scores.
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Research Products
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