A Development of Mathematical Teaching Method of Supporting Metacognitive Activities in Elementary School

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24501121
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University of Education
• Principal Investigator: YOSHINO Iwao 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60312328)
• Research Collaborator: SHIMANUKI Shizuka 札幌市立明園小学校, 教頭
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: メタ認知 / 算数問題解決 / 算数指導法 / 教授学習

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Metacognition is higher-level cognition to monitor and control one’s own cognition objectively, and is important to solve problems efficiently and correctly. This study attempted to develop measurement method of metacognition in mathematical problem solving and mathematical teaching method of supporting metacognitive activities in elementary school, in which we explain metacognition as “teacher in the mind” to children and train them to solve problems using the teacher, in order to nurture their metacognitive abilities.
The following results were obtained. We established the method for measuring metacognitive ability through the worksheet descriptions about what children thought in solving arithmetic word problems. We confirmed the effect of intervention in the fifth graders by comparing the pre- and post- tests involving above measurement method of metacognition.

Free Research Field

教育心理学、認知心理学