In our ICT activities in junior high schools pupils program the RCX and NXT Lego bricks using a Logo-like language supplemented by a program development environment specifically implemented for young students. In their first programs, pupils mainly aim at moving their autonomous robots. We describe how teachers and pupils have analyzed with us a number of robot programs, performing a static ana...

子どもが教科に対して認知する利用価値や興味の変化および分化を検討するために，学習塾に通う小学校4年生から中学校3年生を対象に調査を行った。その結果，実践的利用価値では，英語のみ中学校1年生で高くなるが，他の教科では学年が上がるにつれて低下する傾向がみられた。制度的利用価値では，英語では学年が上がると増加する傾向が，理科と社会では学年が上がると低下する傾向がみられた。興味では数学と英語を除き学年が上がるにつれて低下する傾向がみられた。このように，利用価値の認知や興味の変化は，教科や価値・興味の側面ごとに異なることが示された。また，教科間の相関関係を見ていくと，数学-理科のような距離の近い科目の興味は学年が上がっても，一定の相関係数を維持していた。一方で，数学-国語のような距離の遠い科目の興味は学年が上がるにつれて相関が弱くなり，中学校3年次には相関がみられなくなっていた。このことより，...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using concept mapping to promote reflective instructional decision-making among junior level education preservice teachers when planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. The researchers were interested in determining if there was a connection between the use of concept mapping to help preservice teachers improve their instru...

A large group of problems in the vocational counselling in the New York City schools centers around the rapid advancement classes. The New York school system provides that any child whose school record warrants it, at the time that he enters junior high school, may be recommended by the principal of the elementary school which he is leaving for rapid work. This means that he will do 7 A and 7B ...

This longitudinal study investigated the prevalence, predictors, and related factors for Internet addiction among elementary and junior high school students in Taiwan. A convenient sample of grades 3, 5, and 8 students (n = 1153) was recruited from six elementary and one junior high schools. They were assessed during the beginning and the end of the spring semester of 2013. Internet addiction w...

BACKGROUND On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami caused tremendous damage and traumatized a number of people, including children. This study aimed to compare traumatic symptoms and daily life activity among children 20 months after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami with those observed after 8 months. METHODS The study comprised two...

Readability is basically concerned with readers’ comprehension of given textual materials: the higher the readability of a document, the easier the document can be understood. It may be affected by various factors, such as document length, word difficulty, sentence structure and whether the content of a document meets the prior knowledge of a reader or not. However, simple surface linguistic fe...

One of the most fundamental factors related to psychological well being across the lifespan is whether a person perceives social support from important others in his or her life. The current study explored changes in and relationships among perceived social support (SS) and socioemotional adjustment (SEA) across the 1-year transition from elementary to junior high school. Two cohorts of student...