A Study on the Instruction to Enhance Higher Learning Ability : Through a Practical Lesson with Performance Assessment

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the factors which help to establish the performance assessment and the viewpoint of the instruction for cultivating the ability to utilize the knowledge contained within a teaching material. First, this study describes the performance assessment, the rubric and the outline of the unit. Next, the relationship between the result of the performance assessment and that of the unit test is investigated. As a result of the investigation, it is not shown that significant correlations between the way of thinking in mathematics and the results of the performance assessment were found. After that, however, the relationship between the result of the performance assessment and that of the questionnaires for learning is explored. The results show that it is important to enhance the convictive attitude (students do not ask some questions to others easily, but they get some advice from others after they think and pursue their own ideas or solutions) in order to cultivate the ability to utilize the knowledge.