2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The role of failure in education: Elucidating the mechanism by which failure promotes learning, and expanding findings to school practices

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	26285150
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Partial Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Educational psychology
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	Ichikawa Shin'ichi 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 教授 (70134335)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	植阪友理東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 助教 (60610219) Manalo Emmanuel 京都大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (30580386) 瀬尾美紀子日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 准教授 (90431775) 篠ヶ谷圭太日本大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30645289) 深谷達史群馬大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 准教授 (70724227) 鈴木雅之横浜国立大学, 教育学部, 講師 (00708703)
Research Collaborator	NISHIMURA Takuma 東京大学, 日本学術振興会, PD SHIBA Satomi 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科 WAKABAYASHI Masaaki 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Keywords	失敗活用 / 失敗観 / 学習方略 / 指導法開発 / 実践的研究
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In education, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of utilizing failure to promote positive outcomes. However, students tend to consider failure negatively, so cultivating attitudes and skills to use failure effectively is essential in both academic and real life learning. In this research, we achieved the following outputs. (1) We revealed the structure of students’ attitudes toward failure in educational context by developing a questionnaire. (2) We elucidated individual and environmental factors, and mechanisms, for promoting the effective use of failure in education. (3) We proposed concrete teaching methods for promoting the use of failure in education. (4) We demonstrate empirically the role of failure in the process of improving teachers’ class instruction. (5) By guest editing a special issue of a high-impact journal, we harnessed international expertise to provide evidence-based answers to the question of how failure can be beneficial for learning.
Free Research Field	教育心理学