1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of New Systems to Assess the Cognitive Function in Handicapped Children through Their Daily Behaviors
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61580253
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
科学教育(含教育工学)
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| Research Institution | Okayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
IZAWA Shuji Okayama University, School of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (50014692)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
川端 親雄 岡山大学, 総合情報処理センター, 助教授 (90032812)
迫 明仁 岡山大学, 教育学部, 助手 (30144728)
近藤 勲 岡山大学, 教育学部, 助教授 (50033361)
YANAGIHARA Msdsfumi Okayama University, School of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (00032219)
垂水 共之 岡山大学, 教養部, 助教授 (50033915)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1986 – 1987
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| Keywords | dialy behavior / cognitive function / behavioral intelligence / developmental disorders / development diagnosis / diagnostic logic / reasoning / database |
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| Research Abstract |
It is not enough for the customary intelligence tests to reach the actual cognitive skills when the subjects are the mentally retarded, because the testing situations including test items are designed artificially, due to that, not adaptive to those children. A possible solution will be to provide the tools which extract diagnostic information through the daily child behavior at natural settings. We discussed on building new systems to reply too the need. The results may be summarized as follows :
(a) Pitching a ball to target will need intellectual control such as utilization of knowledge, judgment, decision, inference, and the like. Based on this view, efficiency of the daily pitching behavior as an item to test intellectual skills was investigated. Multi-dimensional direction control and closed-roop regulation were examined and we confirmed adequate results.
(b) Intellectual functions to deal with the practical life tasks may not be assessed untill we chase behavior progress for a while. For that reason the current short-time intelliigenc tests are not effective. Here we chose the work processes that are given to retarded subjects at their school, and the research proposed a new system to analyze worker's adaptve move with the aid of VTR and personal computer. Therblig Analysis was applied to motion study to seek the detailed properties of work tasks.
(c) A drawback of the diagnostic development tests we use is that they cannot extract the internal structure of functions, though they simply demonstrate the surface state of behavior. To solve this limmit, we developed a reasoning system that transforms data on the daily behaviors observed to a structural list of the internal cognitive functional units by logical steps. It became evident that the obtained knowledge on functions may predict occurence of behavior at some 75% accuracy.
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