1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Computer Operation Support System to Establish Elementary Education of Computer Science

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06558026
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educational technology
Research Institution	Tokyo National College of Technology
Principal Investigator	IIZUKA Hajime Tokyo National College of Technology Department of Computer Science, Professor, 情報工学科, 教授 (00212697)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MAEDA Keizo Tokyo National College of Technology Department of Computer Science, Assistant P, 情報工学科, 助手 (00238859)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1995
Keywords	Learning Support / Computer Operation / X Window System / Computer Science / CAI
Research Abstract	The computers are used to support education of computer science or others. It is not easy to teach basic concepts of data processing through practice of application programs. Skills of computer manipulation, word-processing, figure-drawing, etc. are necessary, but not sufficient. We developed software system which analyze and support students' learning process by observing computer operations. Since this system shows meaning of user operations in realtime, students can do cut-and-try operations and can find suitable and original operations. Also we developed some teaching materials about computer manipulation and data processing, in which students can learn with trying some operations actually.