The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology
Online ISSN : 2186-3075
Print ISSN : 0021-5015
ISSN-L : 0021-5015
Volume 10, Issue 1
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  • Motomi Kishida
    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 1-10,62
    Published: March 30, 1962
    Released on J-STAGE: February 19, 2013
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    1) Purpose and method:
    The present report aims to trace the change of pupils' attitudes toward teachers during a school year, and then to examine the relation between pupils' attitudes toward teachers and their attitudes toward school.
    To find out the change of pupils' attitudes during a year, investigation was made, five times each time using the same scale; the first one was a week after the beginning of a new school year, the second a month after, the third at the end of the first term, the fourth at the end of the second term and the fifth was at the end of the school year.
    The scale of attitudes was made after the Thurstone method of equal-appearing intervals. Subjects were the fourth-year pupils of four classes in a certain primary school.
    2) Results of investigation:
    attitudes of pupils toward teachers there was a difference among the four classes which is statistically significant. The difference came in the personality or character of the teachers and in the educational guidance attitudes among the teachers.
    Throughout a year of investigation five times repeated, the pupils of three classes of the four retained an almost constant attitude toward their teachers, without a statistically significant difference of attitudes; on the other hand the pupils of the fourth class changed in their attitudes with a statistically significant difference of attitudes at each time of investigation.
    In personality or character and educational attitudes of guidance, the teachers of the former three classes were average, while the teacher of the latter class was somewhat old deviate.
    The relation between pupils' attitudes toward teachers and their attitudes toward school was one of a close correlation, as denoted by a coefficient of correlation which is statistically significant. Thus it was found that the more pupils formed an intimate attachment for their teachers the more they came to like school.
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  • Analysis of Readiness and Relevance in Learning (2)
    Osamaro Nakadake
    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 11-19,63
    Published: March 30, 1962
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    In this report, the readiness to learn will be considered from the following points.
    (1) To abstract elements (Si, Si+1,..., Sj) of the point of readiness to learn (Ra).
    (2) To consider the structure of the point of readiness to learn (Ra).
    Let (Si, Si+1, ..., Sj) be elements of the points of readiness with respect to the subject-matter (α), and let fa (s1, s2, ..., sn) be achievement-degree of (α), then,
    fα (s1, s2, ..., si-1, 1, ..., 1, sj+1, ..., sn) =1 (1)
    fα (s1, s2, ..., si-1, 1, ..., 0, ..., 1, sj+1, ..., sn) =0 (2)
    where, sl=1 or 0. l=1, 2, ..., i-1, j+1, ..., n
    1: understanding of element (Sl).
    0: not understanding of element (Sl).
    and then from (1)(2), Ql is defined as follows,
    where, si=1 or 0 i=1, 2, ..., l-1, l+1, ..., nΣ: sum of all combinations of (s1, s2, ..., sl-1,(sl) sl+1, ..., sn)
    If (Sl) is element of the point of readiness, then
    Ql=2n-m
    where, m: the number of elements of the points of readiness.
    If (Sl') is not element of the point of readiness, then
    Ql'=0
    From the above point of view, the elements of the point of readiness are abstracted by (4).
    The structure obtained Iogically from (1)(2), is represented as follows.
    Rα= (sl=0, s2=0, ..., si-1=0, si=1, ..., sj=1, 5j+1=0, ..., sn=0)(3)
    This structure will be called equal weight structure. Unequal weight structures are represented;
    where, si+k1>0, si+k2>0 for (8)
    The structure of (7) will be called Or-structure and the structure of (8) will be called And-structure. Considering the structures, the results are (9)(10)(11).
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  • Giyoo Hatano
    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 20-29,64
    Published: March 30, 1962
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    Parental attitudes toward education are an integral part of educational environment, because they may not only provide the basis of democratic educational administration but also affect the children's personality formation. Present study aims at a preliminary analysis of such educational attitudes of parents by Q-technique.
    Subjects were 9 ordinally middle and working class parents, 7 PTA officers, two teachers (all belong to the same junior high school), and 4 educational researchers. They were asked to Q-sort the 60 statements concerning education into 9 piles from most agreeable to most disagreeable. The statements were structured in terms of attitudes (progressive; traditional) and areas (subject-matter, curriculum and achievement ; social character and interpersonal relationships ; physical strength and health).
    From analysis of variance of each subject's Qsort and a factor analysis of the correlation matrix between Q-sorts, the following results were shown:
    (1) The attitudes of common pares did not show the definite tendency in terms of progressivismtraditionalism.
    (2) This doesn't mean, however, that the common parents' educational attitudes were quite personal and had nothing in common. The result of factor analysis revealed that they generally had high loadings on the second factor-that of common-sense viewpoint of education.
    (3) The attitudes of educational researchers and school teachers were, to the contrary, markedly progressive.
    (4) All the educational researchers had high loadings upon the first factor which represents the progressive viewpoint of education. Many of PTA officers showed similar tendencies.
    (5) Teachers had considerably higher loadings on both factors.
    The results of the present study have fair agreement with those of Kerlinger's study in America.
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  • Yasuyuki Sasaki
    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 30-36
    Published: March 30, 1962
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  • Keiichi Mizushima
    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 37-46
    Published: March 30, 1962
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    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 47-51
    Published: March 30, 1962
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    1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 52-59
    Published: March 30, 1962
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  • 1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 61-
    Published: 1962
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  • 1962 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 62
    Published: March 30, 1962
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