2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of educational material for control and measurement in the subject area of industrial arts in junior high-schools
| Project/Area Number |
24501127
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Gunma University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 情報教育 / 中学校・技術 / 計測と制御 / STEM / 性差 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We developed a set of educational material and curriculum for the course unit “Measurement and Control” of the subject area of industrial education in junior high school. In our curriculum, students write computer programs of their own that automatically control a model train. We also created questionnaire that assessed students’ awareness toward computers, STEM, and problem solving and made comparisons with their test scores, which showed substantial effects of the curriculum. We conducted factor analyses and extracted five factors, whose names were “Interests in Computers”, “Grit”, “STEM Interests”, “Self-Efficiency”, “Pride”. We discuss future directions for informatics education based on the gender contrasts in “Interests in Computers” and “Pride” against test scores.
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| Free Research Field |
教育工学
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