Activating a metacognitive strategy for fostering children's adaptive abilities of mathematical problem solving

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380912
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Kobe Shinwa Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Tajika Hidetsugu 神戸親和女子大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (30109368)
• Research Collaborator: KATO Hisae 兵庫教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 ; FUJITANI Tomoko 武庫川女子大学, 短期大学部, 教授 ; HOTTA Chie 関西福祉科学大学, 教育学部, 准教授 ; NOZAKI Hironari 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: メタ認知方略 / 算数問題解決 / タブレット端末 / 縦断的研究 / 児童

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed a mathematical word problem solving system in which the problem was broken down into some steps supported with a metacognitive strategy (self-explanation). The study started in April, 2015 and ended in December, 2016. The result showed that there is a small difference of the transfer test scores between students in the upper group and those in the lower group. The result suggests that the system produces adaptive mathematical problem solvers.

Free Research Field

教育心理学