Development of a program with Japanese style of Tutorial which helps students to understand physics concepts and to foster reasoning ability

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350185
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Tokyo Gakugei University
• Principal Investigator: UEMATSU Haruko (小松晴子) 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (70225572)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): NITTA Hideo 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50198529) ; YASUDA Junichirou 山形大学, 基盤教育院, 准教授 (00402446)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 相互作用型授業 / 能動的関与 / ファシリテーション / 学習姿勢 / 授業観

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Tutorials, which is one of classes involving interactive engagement, are originally developed in the United States. We have kept teaching Tutorials and succeeded in improving them without spoiling original intentions so that we can teach them in the way suitable for Japanese curricula and cultural background. TA’s play an important role in facilitating students’ discussion to promote changing their learning attitudes. We have established a TA training program to let TA's realize the importance of emphasizing reasoning and learning actively. Japanese students proved to have learning attitude using rote memory or pattern-matching in problem solving.

Free Research Field

物理教育，原子物理学，量子光学