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Kanzo OKAZAKI, Shinji OKANO, Shinichiro HAGA, Akihiko SEKI, Hisao SUZU ...
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Purpose of this study were to evaluate a efficacy of the i-PAP; Internet-based Physical Activity Program, for promoting physical activity, and functions and e-mail tip sheets of the i-PAP that may lead to promote attitudes toward physical activity. This study was designed to test the efficacy of the i-PAP over a 14 week in the semester for 81 college students allocated into intervention group (n=52) or no-intervention group (n=29). In repeated measure of ANOVA, intervention group exhibited a significant increase in energy expenditure compared with no-intervention group. In a factor analysis and path analysis, Goal setting, Schedule which is to individually fix the date of physical activity were critical functions for promoting physical activity. The i-PAP showed prominent effectiveness in promoting physical activity as expected. Particulary, Goal setting, Schedule also seemed to have positive effects on attitudes toward physical activity.
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Yu NAKAHASHI, Kosuke TERASHIMA, Hitoshi NAKAGAWA, Izumi OTA
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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The present research is about the interaction among learners generated via educational activities in which learners presented their thinking through interactive whiteboards. The objective was to develop the instructional strategy model teachers used in promoting joint thinking and dialogue between learners. Videotape class interaction between teachers and learners was analyzed. The results indicate that the arrangement of a venue for dialogue provides a clear methodology in asking and answering questions properly. Then, the factors of this research include the scenes using the interactive whiteboards, preparing the presentation image, indicating how to write the explanation, checking the information on the boards, asking the pupils to compare the message by changing color, and saving the message, presenting the samples of standing position, and nonverbal communication.
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Shinichi KIKUCHI, Takehiro FURUTA, Takako AKAKURA
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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In this paper, we study an identification method to confirm examinees periodically during e-tests. First, we apply the localized arc pattern method, conventionally used for off-line identification based on the arc of an individual stroke of a certain sentence on paper, for examinee identification using pen tablets. Second, we propose a pressure localized arc pattern method that utilizes writing pressure which can be obtained on pen tablet, and evaluate the effectiveness of this method. Finally, we conduct e-tests to evaluate the pressure localized arc pattern method. Results of the e-tests suggest that pressure localized arc patterns can be used in examinee identification.
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Hiromitsu NAKAGAWA
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The nationwide survey of scholastic ability and learning environment was carried out in April, 2008. I conducted a canonical correlation analysis on the result of the survey. The survey of scholastic ability looks at two subjects, the national language and mathematics. The survey of learning environment examines the life environment and the attitude to learning. For the grade school children, in the result of the analysis, I found a stronger relation between the scholastic ability and the life environment, than between the scholastic ability and the attitude to learning. Meanwhile, for the junior high school student, the result of the analysis was more complex.
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Yuichiro YAMASHITA, Taira NAKAJIMA
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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In this paper, the authors propose an ICT (Information Communication Technology) system with an educational program for learners to improve presentation skills. The authors also attempt to investigate the effectiveness of our system and educational program. Our system collects data which is for improving presentation by using video camera and response analyzers. In addition, the system enables students to share those data with BBS (Bulletin Board System) on Web. Moreover an educational program helps users improve their presentation skills as effectively as possible. The authors did experiments to investigate about what functions of our system are useful for presentation improvement, and what skills are easily improved by using our system. In the experiment, the authors prepared two groups which consisted of using our system and not using it. The result shows that our system effectively helps students improve their presentations. Especially, the students noticed the improvement points about their speaking manners and their visual slide design.
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Saizo AOYAGI, Hirotake ISHII, Hroshi SHIMODA, Yuto ITAMI, Hiroshi TOMI ...
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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A debate education is effective for fostering critical thinking to improve students' learning motivation. In this study, a critical thinking program has been proposed, which includes debate education by an internet-based debate support system, and it was conducted in practice in a high school. As the result, it was statistically confirmed that their critical thinking attitude of objectivity and good faith was improved.
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Motoko OKUMOTO, Hiroshi KATO
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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Museum objects are open to interpretation, and learners interpret them in their ways. The Cognitive Orientation of Museum tool was developed to support unfamiliar museum learners to make meanings from museum objects. This research analyzed how the COM users developed their original interpretations through pass analysis and interview data. As a result, it was revealed that they tried to appreciate objects using the knowledge of the COM tool, noticed new information from objects, and they interpreted those findings in their ways.
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Eiji TOMIDA, Etsuo MIZUKAMI, Ikuyo MORIMOTO, Hiroko OTSUKA
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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This study examined the effects of participation order and group size on discussion training of the autonomous dialogue, which means communication skills for discussing spontaniously without third person's help in a group of about 6 members. Measures for the effectiveness of discussion were self evaluation on rating scales. Participants were 89 undergraduates. They rated their own and others' discussion in 7 dimensions: honesty, equity, activeness, diversity, depth, management, and cumulativeness. As a result, the activeness component was most facilitated when the students participated after observing others' activity under the condition that their group size was kept in 6 members all through the sessions or increased gradually. The management component was most enhanced under the condition that their group size was increased gradually.
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Rumi HIRAYAMA, Yuuko TANAKA, Miho KAWASAKI, Takashi KUSUMI
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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In this study, we developed and evaluated a critical thinking ability test in Japanese based on the Cornell critical thinking test level Z (Ennis et al., 1985). The first step involved the translation of the original test into Japanese. Subsequently, we assessed the internal consistency and difficulty level of the translated version of the test. Finally, we also assessed the relationship of the translated version of the instrument with a critical thinking disposition scale and with the Kyodai SX instrument, which includes a verbal and a nonverbal intelligence scales. Forty-three students completed the Japanese version of the critical thinking ability test, the critical thinking disposition scale, and the intelligence scales of the Kyodai SX test. Results confirmed that the internal consistency and the difficulty level of the Japanese critical thinking ability test were appropriate. Moreover, the scores in the Japanese critical thinking ability test were positively correlated with scores in the verbal intelligence scale of the Kyodai SX test but presented no correlation with the scores in the nonverbal intelligence scale of the test or with the critical thinking disposition scale. These results suggest that these two components of critical thinking (i.e., ability and disposition) are independent of each other.
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Hideko SHIBASAKI, Katsuo TAMAOKA
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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The present study aimed to build a readability formula to measure levels of school grade 1-9 based on school texts for the Japanese language. Five predicting variables were selected to determine readability as defined by school grades: (1) average number of characters in a sentence, (2) average number of phrasal units in a sentence, (3) average number of predicates in a sentence, (4) ratio of Chinese-originated words in a text, and (5) ratio of hiragana characters in a text. After excluding deviated texts and variables showing multicollinearity, a linear multiple regression analysis indicated two significant predictors of 'average number of predicates in a sentence,' and 'ratio of hiragana characters in a text', showing a high predicting power (R^2=0.791).
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Mio TSUBAKIMOTO, Masayoshi YANAGISAWA, Kanji AKAHORI
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2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages
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This paper considers the scope of applicability of an assistance map using singular value decomposition for grading term papers. Through this method, evaluators rated two types of term papers that differed according to theme and question type, and the report contents and evaluation scores were subsequently visualized. The results showed that the scores for the evaluation item regarding the "comprehensibility of characteristic words used in the report" for the question type that required the writer to adopt a fixed viewpoint, such as for or against a proposition, tended to be visualized in equal clusters of scores for each paper in the assistance map. From this, it became clear what report question types and evaluation criteria enable grading assistance by this visualization method.
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