About
113
Publications
8,688
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
216
Citations
Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Current institution
Publications
Publications (113)
In English education, reading comprehension exercises are one way educators can test a student’s understanding of a passage of text. Given the myriad skills which are used to comprehend text, creating good exercises is a very time-consuming process which prevents many educators from using reading comprehension more often. This paper utilized a gene...
In secondary language education, one tool used by teachers to test students' language ability is reading comprehension. The construction of these problems can take a lot of time as the text needs to contain only the vocabulary and grammar the students know, and the questions also need to test the reasoning skills the teachers want to evaluate. To a...
In this study, a questionnaire was administered to middle and upper elementary school students to evaluate their cloud computing knowledge to obtain suggestions for instructional strategies to understand and promote the utilization of cloud computing. Pictures and sentences explaining cloud computing were evaluated based on the evaluation criteria...
In this study, we conducted a structured interview with a teacher who supported elementary school students utilizing 1:1 information devices for the first time and evaluated the re-sponses to analyzed changes in the teacher’s awareness. Before the 1:1 information devices were used, the teacher was concerned about how to utilize them and the student...
In this study, we conducted preliminary interviews with a teacher with experience in the use of digital textbooks to examine the perspectives necessary for their effective use in the classroom based on the actual use and characteristics of digital textbooks observed by the teacher. We qual-itatively analyzed the responses and organized the results...
In this paper, we 1) review the trend of informatization in elementary and secondary education in Japan, 2) summarize the individualization of learning in today’s educational policy, and 3) attempt to map the outcomes of educational technology research to the present day. The trend of individualization of learning in elementary and secondary educat...
This study aimed to gain insights into the design of computer science curricula in primary schools in Japan by analyzing K–12 computer science curriculum sequences in England, South Korea, and New Zealand. This study focuses on the progression of key areas of computer science learning in K–12 education. This study identified trends in the sequence...
This study aimed to examine gender differences in primary school students’ motivation and social factors in learning programming in Japan. The expectancy-value model was used to survey 6th-grade primary school students at the end of the school year. The results revealed that expectancy (self-efficacy) and intrinsic value were significantly lower fo...
This study practices programming education using a drone in an elementary school and examines the effects on understanding the necessity of using technology in the industry. Before and after the class, students were asked to respond to a questionnaire survey about their awareness of participation in rice cultivation and to describe the jobs they th...
![Characteristics of Tests in Each Type of School [17]](profile/Tatsuya-Horita/publication/366458326/figure/tbl1/AS:11431281108718151@1671585123137/Characteristics-of-Tests-in-Each-Type-of-School-17_Q320.jpg)
本研究では，小学校第6学年を対象に人工知能（Artificial Intelligence，以下「AI」と略す）の画像認識について理解する学習教材を開発し，児童のAIの活用意欲やAIに対する理解，印象の変容から授業を評価した。授業は，画像認識の仕組みを題材にして，AIについて体験的に理解する学習を2単位時間，身近な問題解決にAIの活用を体験する学習を2単位時間で実施した。得られた結果より，AIについて体験的に理解する学習によってAIに対する理解が促され，AIの活用を体験する学習によって，AIに対する印象を肯定的なものへと変容させ，AIの活用意欲を高めることが示唆された。
本研究では，小学校第４学年理科「物のあたたまり方」の単元で日常生活や社会との関連を図るアニメーション教材を開発し，その効果を検証した．その結果，開発したアニメーション教材を使用すると，学習内容と日常生活や社会との関連に気づき，理科学習に対しての興味が高まること，アニメーション教材に，児童が選択したり，繰り返し試行したりできるような機能をつけることで，思考を深めようとする理科学習に対しての興味が高まること，正しい概念形成が促されることが示唆された．
This study investigated teachers’ teaching knowledge of using 1-to-1 tablet PCs in an elementary school classroom. First, we interviewed teachers regarding their intentions for motivating teaching behaviors observed in their classes. The content of the interviews was classified with reference to the framework of “teachers’ knowledge domains in teac...
本研究では，小学校社会科の農業の学習においてドローンを用いたプログラミング教育を実践し，テクノロジーを米作りへ活用する必要性の理解に関する効果について検証した．授業の事前事後において，米作りへの参画意識に関する調査への回答と，米作りに関連すると考えられる仕事の記述をさせた．その結果，ドローンを用いたプログラミング教育が，ドローンを米作りに活用することを想起させることに有効であり，米作りへの参画意識を育むことが示唆された．また，授業の事後において米作りに対するイメージを自由記述で回答させ，テキストマイニングによる分析を行った．その結果，ドローンを用いたプログラミング教育を経験することにより，ドローンを米作りに活用することの必要性を理解するとともに，人が担う役割について再考するなど，これからの米...
This study aimed to gain insights for designing K–12 computer science curricula from the perspective of a competency-based approach to develop competencies, such as computational thinking, through examining the K–12 curricula in countries that have introduced competency-based education reform to show the trends in the combination of concepts and pr...
本稿では，諸外国と日本のコンピュータサイエンス（以下，CS）教育のカリキュラムのタイムラグに関する状況を調査することで，今後発生する新たな社会的要請や研究成果をCS教育のカリキュラムにタイムラグ少なく導入していくための改善の方向性について日本が示唆を得ることを目的とした。その結果，カリキュラムの変更時期であることを認識した後実際に改訂カリキュラムを起草するまでに要する時間である意思決定のタイムラグに関して，日本は課題があることが示唆された。日本のような定期的なカリキュラムの更新サイクルは，持続性や効率性の観点から多くの国で採用されているものの，新たな社会的要請や研究成果への迅速な対応が難しいとされる。日本においては，継続的な部分改訂を可能にするカリキュラム・フレームワークの仕組みの設計が，社...
本研究では，英国，韓国，ニュージーランド（以下，NZ）と日本を比較し，初等中等教育におけるコンピュータサイエンス（以下，CS）教育のカリキュラムの背景にある要請や教育目的・目標の特徴の共通点や相違点を見出すことを目的に，CS 教育の導入経緯における現カリキュラムの改訂過程と現カリキュラムにおいて，どのような要請が検討され，それが教育目的・目標にどのように関連しているのかを調査した．その結果，社会的要請に関しては 4 カ国共通して，情報技術の進展やその結果としての社会への影響などが見られた．学問的要請に関しては4カ国共通して，CS を学問として捉えていた．日本においては，他の 3 カ国よりも CS を広義に捉えていることが推測された．また，教育目的・目標に関しては，社会的要請と学問的要請が反映...
The purpose of this study was to identify international trends in K–12 computer science curricula in countries that have introduced computer science education. Content analysis method was used to analyze the country-wide curricula of 10 countries which have introduced computer science education at the primary level. The K–12 Computer Science Framew...
シンガポール，エストニア，イタリアの 3 カ国において，初等教育の過半数以上の学校で実施されているコンピュータサイエンス（CS）に関するパイロットプログラムが導入されている。本研究では日本の初等教育における CS 教育に活かす観点を見出すことを目的に，その特徴を学習目標や学習内容に着目して調査した。その結果，これらのパイロットプログラムには（1）教育省が資金面，体制面，広報面などに責任を持っていること，（2）児童生徒向け教材や，指導用の教材，教員研修などが充実しており，指導の負荷を下げる取り組みが行われていること，（3）児童生徒の将来に必要な知識・能力の観点から，時代の必要性を反映した学びが導入されていること，などの特徴があることが見いだされた。
本研究では，初等中等教育において，コンピュータサイエンスの体系的な指導に役立つ有益な示唆を得ることを目的に，初等中等教育の学習内容と大学・社会人に求められる情報技術の基本的な知識・技能等を，コンピュータサイエンスの観点から整理・分析した．分析にあたっては，K-12 Computer Science Framework[1]を用い，初等中等教育は新学習指導要領，大学はカリキュラム標準一般情報教育[2]，社会人はITパスポート試験シラバス（Ver.4.0）[3]を対象に内容分析を行った．その結果，コンピュータサイエンスに関する学習内容は各教科等横断的に記述が見られること，また初等中等教育の期間に記述が見られなかったり，段階的な深まりが見出しにくい概念や実践が存在したりすることが確認された．
The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a system to support the scoring of writing tests in primary and secondary schools employing the subject-teacher and the classroom-teacher systems. To this end, we employ the previously proposed image-skewered method, in addition to an area setting package function, to address commercially availab...
An attitude survey for teachers was administered to derive extracted inhibition factors and promotion factors using exploratory factor analysis to clarify concrete measures to promote programming education in elementary schools. From the results of 434 respondents, 3 inhibition factors were identified: “lack of teaching materials”, “recognition of...
In this study, we surveyed fourth, fifth, and sixth grade elementary school students
to determine (1) the frequency of their contact with the media, including manga; (2) their
experiences reading manga, including frequency; and (3) their awareness and attitudes
about manga. Results showed a lower frequency of reading manga in comparison with a
prev...
Japanese comics (manga) are now one of the most popular reading media among young generations. However, the cognitive
mechanisms that might underlie reading comprehension of manga remain unknown. This study aimed to clarify the characteristics
of reading comprehension of manga with respect to the functions of working memory. In this study, 61 sixth...
![The learning content and objectives reported by Okubo et al.[13]](profile/Kiichiro-Okubo/publication/349521301/figure/tbl1/AS:994318881914883@1614075503404/The-learning-content-and-objectives-reported-by-Okubo-et-al13_Q320.jpg)
This study examined the use of the Japanese comic form manga as an effective tool for teaching reading. Specifically, it evaluated a learning program to foster media literacy among fifth-grade students through reading, interpretation, and appreciation of manga using the framework of text comprehension models. The resulting analyses indicated that r...
Along with the education informatization, use of tablet computers in school classrooms is gaining considerable popularity as a means of improving educational quality. Accordingly, investigating the tablet computer usage among students from an ergonomics viewpoint is important because the usage environment in schools differs from that in daily life....
高度情報通信社会を迎えた今日における情報リテラシーに関する教育はどうあるべきなのか．本稿は，この問いに対する初等中等教育段階を対象とした教育について検討する．まず，これまで我が国の初等中等教育で検討・実施されてきた情報リテラシー教育を概観し，児童生徒の情報リテラシーの実態について把握する．その上で，初等中等教育において取り組まれている情報リテラシー教育の実践や研究を整理し，課題を指摘する．
This study examined the relevance of several factors (the learning methods, the learning experience, and their psychological characteristics) in junior and senior high school students to work on collaborative learning in the asynchronous e-Learning. In relation with the learning methods, the mutual evaluation activities promote regulated learning....
The Japanese government conducted curriculum reform to integrate computer science into its informatics education and will implement it by 2020 at the elementary level. There is a growing need for research in this field to deliver effective teaching. This research extracted learning goals from empirical studies of computer science education from Jap...
This study considers comprehension of manga as part of establishing an effective teaching method of reading comprehension for manga. Specifically, the learning program to foster media literacy through reading, interpretation, and appreciation of manga for fifth - grade students were organized and analyzed using the framework of the existing text co...
This study aimed to clarify how elementary-school readers comprehend manga
stories. According to van Dijk & Kintsch's (1983) model of reading comprehension, people
can construct three distinct levels of text representation: the surface form, the propositional
textbase, and the situation model. Based on this model, we investigated whether this tripa...
This study sought to determine the effects of personality traits on smartphone dependency and loneliness, controlling for the effects of students' self-perception towards instant messaging (IM) and email dependency, and compared them among social networks formed through face-to-face (FTF), IM and email. A total of 216 university students in Japan c...
In this study, a class system to support the learning of planing motions was developed and assessed in technology education classes-technology and home economics-at a junior high school. The system gathered and stored practice data as students used the planing motion learning application and special plane, and then presented the data as instruction...
This study investigates the causal relationships between the electronic media/social media use of college students and their Internet literacy, addressing the effects of social skills and gender differences. We conducted a panel survey targeting Japanese college students and analyzed 107 responses. The following results were produced: (a) The colle...
We developed a system for class to support the training of planing motion. We used it in classes to evaluate our system. When students train the planing motion with smartphone application and exclusive plane, training records are accumulated in database and shown on teacher's device as the information that is useful for instruction. Through practic...
With respect to the information education in elementary and secondary education in Japan, this study has shown its definition, educational contents, institutional positioning in educational curriculum, and the results of relevant research and studies. It also reviewed the studies on information education focusing on elementary and secondary educati...
This study aims to investigate the causal relationships between college students’ media/social media usage and their Internet literacy, controlling for the effects of social skills and gender differences on them. We conducted a panel survey targeting Japanese college students and analyzed based on 107 students’ responses. The following results were...
In this research, an educational program which acquires media literacy through an
activity of reading, interpreting, and appreciating manga targeting 5th grade students in an
elementary school is developed. After students learned the explanatory text about a manga
artist in Japanese class, they read the artworks of that artist thoroughly and did ac...
This study aims to investigate the causalities between college students’ media usage and their Internet literacy, including social skill’s effects on them. We conducted a panel survey targeting college students and an analysis of “cross- lagged effect model” based on 107 students’ responses. The following results were clarified. (a) Over 90% used L...
The attitude survey for the teachers concerning the function of the School Affairs Support System and the burden of the teachers was conducted, and the reply was obtained from 1,583 teachers. Five factors were obtained by factor analysis for necessary feeling with the function, and they are "School affairs management", "List printing", "Results tot...
In this case study, the purpose is to clarify the characteristics of communication among teachers about the use of ICT through the analysis of cases of primary school where document cameras and computers are used on a daily basis. The results of interviews are depicted in a diagram called a communication flow regarding whom they ask and who is aske...
A web-based teacher training system, which was named "TRAIN", was developed for improving teaching skills of school teachers by using ICT. In "TRAIN", 218 brief video contents intended to be helpful to the improvement of teachers' teaching skills and the promotion of use of ICT at schools can be watched on Internet for training. To help efficient u...
In Japan, ICT use in teaching to improve scholastic abilities has been driven forward by policies about distribution of ICT environment and guidelines about informatization of schools. Some survey analysis for the effects of ICT use have discussed, and confirmed scientifically. In addition, several kinds of teaching practices of ICT use to improve...
Many teachers all over the country reported on their teaching by using ICT, and the classes where teachers taught students by using ICT were compared with the classes where they did not use ICT. As results, it was found that scholastic attainments were on the rise by using ICT in the class. Teachers measured student's scholastic attainments based o...
In the UK, the contribution of ICT use to improvements in academic achievement is inspected, and research in the area is accumulating. We analysed the national policies and initiatives or preparing the ICT environment. As a result, the background of the spread of ICT use in the UK became clear. A Self-Review Framework is used by schools as an index...
ICT use in the class process of the whole class teaching was investigated. The investigation object is teachers who are daily using ICT in their teaching. As a result, the following respect became clear. 1) ICT had been used 3.3 times on the average among the class of 45 minutes. Averages of the required time of ICT use were 19.0 minutes. ICT had b...
The Ministry of Education announced officially in February 2007 the standard of teacher's ICT use instruction ability, which is classified into five categories and composed of 18 checklists. Many school teachers were requested to evaluate these checklists themselves, and 2,031 teachers were answered. After conducting factor analysis, four factors o...
Questionnaires on the informatization of school education were sent out to 5,000 schools across the nation and responses were received from 3,869 teachers and 2,019 administrative teachers such as principals. Using their responses, the differences between types of schools, teachers' years of experience teaching, the providing of computers and e-mai...
Questionnaire surveys were conducted twice to find out the present situations of informatization of school education that our country has been promoting, and to clarify promotive and disincentive factors. Questionnaires were sent on February 2004 and December 2005 to 5,000 schools of primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools, and receive...
This paper describes the development of a system for distributing the location of information found on the Web that is useful to teachers. The system is known as Teacher's Desktop (hereafter TD). Development first involved exploration for Web information that is useful to teachers. This information was identified and compiled in a list. The TD syst...
Two surveys for teachers were done in 2006 to make clear the status of equipment with ICT environment for school work, and the way of getting information for school teachers in Japan from these results. It was cleared that teachers who are getting information by web are also collecting by other traditional ways as well. The status of equipment with...
We developed a Japanese keyboarding training and certification system for elementary school children. First we consulted with the experienced elementary school teachers who have conducted advanced study on keyboarding for children and then designed 30 steps to learn Japanese keyboarding. We designed a web application system with a story like that o...
We developed the "Keyboard Island Adventure", Japanese language keyboard learning system for elementary school children. In order to improve the speed and accuracy of input, the design principles of the learning system include a test function. For two months from May 2003, the system was evaluated by 1,897 children from 19 elementary schools, and b...
