IEEJ Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials
Online ISSN : 1347-5533
Print ISSN : 0385-4205
ISSN-L : 0385-4205
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Supplemental Implementation for Proposal of Education in Science Oriented Informatics Literacy Focused on Numerical Simulations
Hiroyuki ShirahamaTakekuni YamaokaYasuyuki KawamuraHiroki Hosoda
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2015 Volume 135 Issue 11 Pages 645-654

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The goal of our study is to develop a teaching program with respect to the science oriented informatics literacy education. The paper mainly describes the supplemental educational implementation to survey the students' consciousness about numerical simulations as the preliminary step of the study. We have implemented lectures focused on systems having unstable fixed points, in which it is considerably difficult to obtain stable results even in simulations. Therefore students have to interpret plural results in simulations independently. The target consisted of about 120 students who mainly belong to eleventh grade in a specialized, an integrated and a normal courses in the same prefecture. The students' consciousness was extracted by questionnaire surveys. As the results of questionnaire surveys before lectures, it was confirmed that students believe those results in simulations is rather more correct than in analyses. The reason was that they choose comfortable/intuitive solutions by misunderstanding based on their own experiences, namely they believe computers have never derived wrong solutions. By observing plural solutions in simulations and by comparing those results with experimental results, students' misunderstanding about simulations was able to be corrected. The lecture is valid for raising the scientists' and engineers' moral, as well as for the informatics literacy about science. Now an educational program of the science oriented informatics literacy, which is developed based on results of the supplemental implementation, is in progress for the wide target from elementary school to upper secondary school

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