2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Effects of Idea-generation training on Students' Persuasive Writing

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23700999
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Educational technology
Research Institution	Hiroshima Shudo University
Principal Investigator	NISHIMORI Akiko 広島修道大学, 学習支援センター, 学習アドバイザー (50294012)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	カリキュラム / 教授法開発
Research Abstract	The studies consist of three parts. Its results are as follows： Study1: Using inquiry papers for high school students and college students, theirrecognition on ‘ writing’ and their persuasive writing would be investigated.Study2: The idea generation training was developed and carried out for high schoolstudents. Pre- and post-test were conducted for both students that had undertaken thetraining and students that had not. The results showed that going through thetraining improved students’ idea generation. Study3: The course on persuasive writing including the idea generation training wasdeveloped for high school students. The experiment was designed to identify the effectsof the idea generation training. The performance was evaluated through Pre- andpost-test for both students that had undertaken the training and students that had not.The results showed that going through the training improved students’ persuasivewriting.

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