2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A method to assist acquiring ability to understand physical phenomena based on basic principles

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21650226
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educational technology
Research Institution	Kyushu Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	TAKEUCHI Akira 九州工業大学, 大学院・情報工学研究院, 教授 (00117152)
Research Collaborator	FUKUDA Kanae 九州工業大学, 大学院・情報工学府, 大学院生 TAKAO Goro 九州工業大学, 大学院・情報工学府, 大学院生
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	学習支援システム / 物理学習 / 物理実験設計 / 誤り診断 / 説明生成
Research Abstract	The aim of the research is to develop a method to realize computer systems that support learners to acquire ability of analytical thinking about phenomena in physics and modeling them. Learners are given a problem to design physics experiments where they are required to decide the purpose of the experiment and procedures of data analysis. We developed a method to guide learners to rethink experiments by pointing out issues in their designs. We also developed a method to generate explanations about dynamic systems from causal relations between forces and objects in the physics systems