An Analysis of Eye Movements while Watching Educational TV Programs

This study examined subjects\u27 eye movements while watching educational TV programs to characterize audiovisual information processing through the media. College students, wearing an eye camera, watched various scenes from sample programs. The programs were presented in each of the following three conditions: In Condition AV_1, pictures with sound were presented; in Condition V-AV_2, pictures without sound were followed by pictures with sound; in Condition A-AV_2, sound without pictures was followed by pictures with sound. Analyses of the videotaped eye movements revealed that most viewers tend to pay much attention to 1) human faces, 2) captions, and 3) moving objects in the pictures. Generally, patterns of eye movements were similar in Conditions AV_1, V, and AV_2. Eye movements on graphic presentations indicated greater individual differences. These results could be used to improve the production procedures for educational TV programs

第1章 大学授業における学習者と教授者の主体的参加支援(第I部 平成14年度、15年度の研究課題,フレキシブル・ラーニングのための学習支援と評価(II),メディアFDとフレキシブル・ラーニング支援の研究開発)

本研究の目的は、学習者と教授者の主体的参加による大学授業の改善を支援する方法を明らかにすることにあった。対象は、3大学院7クラスの授業の受講生68名と担当教師1名であった。授業では、学生も教師も学習、教授、評価を体験した。主体的参加を支援する方法として、ビデオ記録による自己モデリングと、自己効力と自己評価に関する調査への回答による意識化の2つを用いた。学生や教師を対象とした授業に関する調査結果から、これらの方法が授業改善の支援に有効であることが明らかにされた

Spectroscopy of eta'-nucleus bound states at GSI-SIS

The eta' meson mass may be reduced due to partial restoration of chiral symmetry. If this is the case, an eta'-nucleus system may form a nuclear bound state. We plan to carry out a missing-mass spectroscopy with the 12C(p,d) reaction at GSI-SIS. Peak structures corresponding to such a bound state may be observed even in an inclusive measurement, if the decay width is narrow enough.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of MESON2012 (12th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction), Krakow, Polan

映像メディアによる新しい学習の展開(フレキシブル・ラーニングのための学習支援と評価(I),メディアFDとフレキシブル・ラーニング支援の研究開発)

本論文は、「映像による学習」について再考し、新たな研究アイディアを提起することを目的とする。これまで長年蓄積された伝統的なメディアによる学習過程についての実証的な研究を概観・整理し、特に、映像メディアの発達に伴うモデリングによる学習の変化について新しい理論的枠組みを提案する。また、その適用事例としてカウンセリングの学習を取上げ、具体的に検討する

Approaches to Study in Japanese Higher Education Students

The Lancaster Approaches to Studying Inventory (Ramsden 1983) was administered to a sample of 794 Japanese higher education students in order to compare their responses with students from countries of British origin and to test the applicability of the Inventory in this context. Furthermore, in view of the different sex role expectations of Japanese men and women we were interested in comparing their approaches to study and motivation for study. Discipline differences were also examined in a comparison of Humanities/Social Science students and Science/Technology students. Factor analysis revealed a pattern of results which is broadly similar to previous studies with a meaning orientation factor emerging first followed by a reproducing orientation factor. The third factor was a negative attitudes to study factor. However, the meaning orientation factor was coupled with a cue seeking or strategic approach to study, the reproducing orientation factor was coupled with achievement motivation and the third factor was coupled with disorganised study methods. Japanese students tended to display lower mean scores than all previously studied samples on the following subscales: deep approach, use of evidence, surface approach, syllabus-boundness, achievement motivation, strategic approach and operation learning. However they scored higher than all other groups on negative attitudes to study. There were differences between males and females on approaches to study with females scoring higher than males on reproducing orientation and males scoring higher than females on meaning orientation. Females also expressed significantly higher levels of achievement motivation or competitive behaviour. There were discipline differences on these two scales as well but they were consistent with the higher proportion of males in the Science/Technology subjects and the higher proportion of females in the Humanities/Social Sciences subjects. Achievement motivation seemed to be an important variable in mediating approaches to study, in that regardless of sex and regardless of discipline, an increase in achievement motivation was accompanied by an increase in reproducing orientation to study. Overall the results need to be interpreted with caution in view of the low reliability of some subscales of the Inventory and the fact that many subscale distributions were either highly skewed or bimodal