Abstract
An educational environment has been rapidly changing since CAL(Computer Aided Learning) and internet teaching were employed. Various methods using CAL and internet teaching have been studied in comparison with conventional learning methods. It is desirable to choose a suitable learning method based on the character of a learner and a learning subject. The behavior of a human being is controlled by his/her brain activities. We expect that the learning progress can be estimated by observing his/her ERPs(Event Related Potentials). To clarify this remark, we have proposed a method of how to characterize a quantitative evaluation of a learning method by measuring his/her ERPs. In this paper, we compare a method using CAL with a conventional method using just a pencil and a sheet of paper to learn Chinese characters. We evaluate the progress of each method by quantitative values derived from the data of his/her ERPs. We can recognize a significant difference between the evaluations of his/her ERPs obtained from different learning methods. From our experiments, we can say that the method using CAL is useful to check how much the learner's knowledge about a Chinese character is sure and how much he/she learned new Chinese characters. However, we can conclude that the conventional method using a pencil and a sheet of paper is more useful than the method using CAL to memorize Chinese characters.
