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[in Japanese]Article type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 1-2
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
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Tsugio KAMADAArticle type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 3-10
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe study is conducted to develop an instrument for measuring beliefs about mathematics or mathematics learning in junior high school students, and investigate the relationship of their beliefs on their achievement in mathematics. The scores for investigating the purpose of the study are gathered from subjects who are eighth-grade students of a junior high school in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The instrument developed through the item analysis is a 5-point Likert-type scale, and consists of 20 items. Alpha and stability coefficients of the instrument are 0.764 and 0.692 respectively. A factor analysis predicts that there are four major factors, two of which are motivation factor to learning mathematics and evaluation factor on one's thinking in learning mathematics. Thefe is a small but significant positive correlation between students' beliefs about mathematics and their mathematics achievement. The multiple regression analysis reveals that motivation and evaluation factors have stronger effects on mathematics achievement than the other factors have.View full abstractDownload PDF (921K) -
Ken KAWASAKIArticle type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 11-17
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIt is believed that science has a certain universality; however, the universality of science is no more than an assertion made by science itself. Universality should be criticized when one wants to conduct STS-education: "teaching science content in the authentic context of its technological and social milieu." When a western society criticizes it, a general question will be raised: What is science? STS-education seems to introduce epistemology into science education. The epistemology is an investigation of the method or grounds of knowledge, and finally leads to the following question: What am I? The significance, or the reason for being, of STS-education is entirely different in a non-western society. In criticizing science a non-westerner will never ask what I am; he can merely know what a westerner is. Since education should perform an important function in letting students form their personalities through asking "What am I?", the non-western society cannot regard STS-education as education at all. For the non-western society the original significance of STS-education is necessary. The present report concludes that only cultural relativism can make it possible for STS-education to fulfil the essentail criterion for education.View full abstractDownload PDF (908K) -
Junichi ISHIDA, Hidetsugu TAJIKAArticle type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 18-25
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of the present study was to explore what processes of problem solution influenced difficulty in solving arithmetic word problems. Three types of subprocesses involved in solving word problems were analyzed: Translation, integration, and planning processes. One hundred ten fifth-grade children participated in the study. They took two kinds of tests, arithmetic computation problems and word problems. Word problems consisted of 18 items that tapped each of three types of subprocesses. The results demonstrated the crucial importance of the integration process in solving word problems regardless of computational ability. The results are discussed in terms of internal representation which requires schematic knowledge.View full abstractDownload PDF (762K) -
Moriyasu MURAI, Harutosi MAKINO, Masao SHIBATAArticle type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 26-36
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe are developing CAI materials of VTR control type for pre-training of practice teaching. In this CAI, we use much knowledge of skin resistance response for analyzing the teaching-learning process. So, this paper discribes the theoretical background of using skin resistance response as a guide for the teaching-learning process. Skin resistance response of all children of a class are measured by using the Learning-Controlled-Analysis System in the classroom of Kyouiku-Zissen-Kenkyu-Sidou Center, Oita University. First, we discussed skin resistance response as being an orienting response, which responded to strange stimulus. From several scenes, we collected useful data, for analyzing the teaching-learning process. In addition to this, we also gained other facts. There are facts that skin resistance responses do not respond for concentration and strong attentiveness in learning. These facts are supported by many data. After these explanations, we describe some other results obtained through skin resistance response.View full abstractDownload PDF (1460K) -
Kenji TANAKA, Seiji KAKIHARAArticle type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 37-43
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe journal articles on earth science were retrieved by keyword "Earth Science" from ERIC database. The journals were sorted by the number of articles, whose number was accumulated. The authors defined "core journals" as journals which sum up to 80% coverage of articles, and "peripheral journals" as another journals. Moreover, the core journals were divided into "inner core journals" (up to 66% coverage) and "outer core journals" (from 66% to 80% coverage). All citations of these journals were retrieved from Ulrich database, and analyzed in this study. Compared with the peripheral journals, as to the core journals: the Ulrich contained all the journals, and all were now published in USA; the average of circulation is the higher, and the average of first published year is the older of the two groups of journals; special features were much contained; the artitles were abstracted in many abstracting and/or indexing journals. Compared with the inner core journals, as to the outer core journals: the attributes of journals were not assigned by the subject area "earth science."; the average of frequency was the higher; the average of subscription price was the higher. The core journals, i.e., 80% coverage-journals, could be purchased at the price of 20% of all journals. When the coverage of articles were 20% up from inner core journals to core journals, the price became 200% up.View full abstractDownload PDF (816K) -
Yasuko TOKORO, Keiko OHSAWA, Michimasa EBUCHI, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Katu ...Article type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 44-51
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn this paper, a trial conductivity meter was used to prepare and file the primary data applied to an environmental field of science education. Ionic compounds including in air were collected by using hanging cloth method and/or by dewdrop (condenced through a chilled trap) method. From the results of hanging cloth method, it may be concluded that the amount of electrolyte eluted from the hanging cloth is affected by both natural factor (such as geographical feature, geological feature, weather condition and so on) and artifical factor (such as exhaust gas (fume), industrial wastes, fertilizers, antifreeze and so on). From the results of dewdrop method, the amount of electrolyte is related to the repeating times of the dewdrob experiment in a closed space under the generating steam. This phenomena may be very similar to the shower effect in a surgery room.View full abstractDownload PDF (948K) -
[in Japanese]Article type: Article
1993 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 52-
Published: March 10, 1993
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
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