We conducted a survey on self-evaluations of skillfulness and attendance in daily activities for private high school students in Tokyo. We also conducted a threads-tying test to determine functional degrees of fingers and hands. We analyzed how skill or lack of skill in using fingers and hands and self-evaluations of skillfulness related to attitudes in daily activities and consciousness towards practical classes. The results are as follows :
1. Only about 30% of the high school students evaluated themselves skillful in fingers and hands. They tended to have less confidence about their skillfulness in fingers and hands.
2. Analyzing the attitudes in daily activities and reasons, related to self-evaluation of skillfulness, confidence about skillfulness had a relation with positive attendance in daily activities and marks/grades at practical classes.
3. The girl students achieved more on threads-tying test than the boy students, which was considered to have relation with the frequency in using fingers and hands in daily activities.
4. Self-evaluation of skillfulness did not necessarily coincide with actual skillfulness determined by the test. The sample was divided into the four groups ; skillful, over-estimate, under-estimate and unskillful groups. Considering the characteristic of each group, matters to be paid attention to in educational method in practical classes including sewing class were discussed.
