Abstract
We live in so called information oriented society. Therefore, in the educational field, it is important to learn how to treat information and to use the educational instruments. At one time most information was formed by the signs of numbers and letters. Recently colors and figures have been regarded as the important elements for information treatment as well. Especially they are indispensable in the field of textiles and clothing design. Therefore we propose here some computer assisted teaching materials which will be efficient in this field.
First, we have developed a computer assisted system, referred to as“Basic course for textiles and clothing design”, which consists of teaching courses and sense tests. Second, in order to evaluate the effects, we made a textbook as the subject including the same contents, and compared learning effects between the two systems. The female students as the subjects were divided into two groups, one, the computer using group, the other, the textbook using group. The evaluation of learning effects was made using questionnaire surveys and sense tests.
The results were as follows:
1) Thanks to the function of real time drawing and painting, the computer assisted system was more effective for learning visual design principles. The computer users, however, felt more tired and less concentrated due to the longer learning.
2) The average of test scores showed no significant difference between two groups. But the variances of the score of computer using group was smaller.
3) The analysis of the sense tests according to Quantification III clarified that the computer users tend to make careless mistakes when they felt tired.
