E. Nakagawa et K. Shintani, EFFECTS OF TRAINING TECHNIQUES ON SOLVING ARITHMETIC WORD-PROBLEMS INELEMENTARY-SCHOOL-CHILDREN - EXAMINATION OF A SELF-CONTROL TRAINING METHOD, Kyoiku shinrigaku kenkyu, 44(1), 1996, pp. 23-33
The present study investigated which factors facilitated solving arith
metic word problems in fifth graders by comparing five training techni
ques : (1) Self control-interpretation training(SCI) that was to acqui
re both the self regulated uses of solving skill and strategy and the
self control ability of evaluating one's own solving process, correcti
ng it and interpretating it to others; (2) Blind training(BT) expected
to enhance the awareness of solving skill and strategy; (3) Error fin
ding training (EF) that was to monitor the other's solving process; (4
) Ordinary teaching training(C) used in a public elementary school, an
d (5) 30-SCI training(SO-SCI) that children had been given the SCI tra
ining for 30 hours before the basic learning had begun. In Experiment
1, fifth graders were trained under a given condition for three hours
and then given four posttests. Group 30-SCI did better performance on
each posttest than the 4 other groups. Group SCI also did better perfo
rmance on posttests 1, 2, and 3 than Group BT. Experiment 2 using four
training techniques confirmed the superiority of the SCI technique to
the others found in Experiment 1 in third graders.