Study of Logical Thinking Training by Visual Logic Programming

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12171
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Learning support system
• Research Institution: Future University-Hakodate
• Principal Investigator: Sumi Kaoru 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (20332752)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 論理思考力 / 論理パズル / 物語作成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As a method to raise the logical thinking ability for students, we developed (1) a story creation system with What-If function and (2) a logical thinking training system using logical puzzles and examined the systems for subjects of elementary school students. The story creation system with What-If function encourages thinking of "What happens if it becomes like this" has increased and it was observed that the students were working on creating stories of the post-test by applying the things learned in the system.
It was shown that the logical thinking training system using the logic puzzle was effective in improving the logical thinking ability. From the questionnaire results, the students were satisfied with the system, and it was observed that individual difference of the learners’ understanding is large when solving logic puzzles.

Free Research Field

メディア情報学