Abstract
This study examined the effectiveness of a high school world history class format in which a textbook and PowerPoint presentation were used to explain the content of history, and the teacher answered questions generated by students using Google Forms, on interests in history and attitude toward independent inquiry-based learning. The results showed that the practical use value and private attainment value, which are considered to be included in the interests of history, increased significantly after the class, while the interest value did not increase significantly. Moreover, there was no difference between the pre- and post-questionnaires in adaptive help-seeking, which are thought to be important in promoting independent inquiry-based learning. There was also no effect of the number of questions generated on the interests in history and the attitude toward independent inquiry-based learning. These results indicate that this class format had a partial effect on the students' interests in history, but not enough on their attitude toward independent inquiry-based learning. Finally, we discussed the class format including educational media in the future.
