Abstract
The objective of this study was to clarify the validity of the Hopfield models by which students' schemata were represented, and to clarify the application of the models for constructing learning situations. In this research, eighth grade students were asked to answer a paper-and-pencil test related to animal life and animal bodies. The Hopfield models were constructed by some of their answers. The students' other answers were predicted using the models. The validity of the models was admitted by the correspondence of the predictions with the students' answers. Then some learning contexts were assumed, and the students' responses to the learning contexts were simulated by the models. The models could predict the affairs that the students would remember, so the models were thought to be useful for design of classes.
