Recently researchers on the teaching-learning processes have improved in the field of educational psychology. The main aim of this symposium is to recomend the direction of future studies, considering made researches on the teaching learning processes in the past 20 years activities of the Japanese Association of ducational Psychology.
Nishinosono reviewed the trends of studies, according to the results of analysis by computer appearing in the Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology and at the Annual Conventions of Educational Psychology ; and he found out that recently the characteristics of the researches on teaching learning processes were just reading foreign references ; to identify the study themes, to plan strict experimental designs, to select preschool children and university students, to analyze the data by inductive statistics, to derive conclusions from results, and to papers, had made the psychological researches for solving educational problems in Japan 20 years ago. He concluded that the important things were to conduct the studies for solving educational problems in Japan and then to gather and retrieve a variety of informations on case studies in order to find out techniques for teaching technologies. Four speakers presented their own papers, as an answer to Nishinosono's problems.
Namiki described the necessity of ATI studies to get instructional prescription adaptive to individual differences of learnings in teaching learning processes.
Takeshita emphasized the importance of studies on teachers' behaviors and their orientation in the framework of research factors.
orientation in the framework of research factors. Kimura described the present state of CAI studies from both sides of hardware and software, andintroduced a technological development on the automatic generation of educational materials by computer.
Okada asked the researchers to develop a simplified research methodology for teachers, to show the limitation of new teaching methods at their application and to make clear effectiveness of each component of teaching behaviors
The discussion was mainly concerned with the relationship between science and technology on teaching learning processes. To ccumulate datas on the teaching technologies in teaching learning processes in Japan, came as a conclusion, in reference to scientific observations, to help the use of such informations in instructional practices and gain new scientific knowledges throgh feedback from such processes
