Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Educational Sciences Education Data Science Program
Lecture Code WNF15001 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 特別研究
Subject Name
(Katakana)
Subject Name in
English
Special Study
Instructor TANAKA HIDEYUKI
Instructor
(Katakana)
タナカ ヒデユキ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  First Semester,  First Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1st) Tues9-10:Faculty Office
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details)
Face-to-face
Discussion and presentation by students
 
Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week 2 Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 6 : Graduate Advanced
Course Area(Area) 24 : Social Sciences
Course Area(Discipline) 08 : Curriculum and Instruction Sciences
Eligible Students
Keywords  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
In this course, students will develop basic research skills, problem solving skills, and research supervision skills for contents science related to data science and subject pedagogy".

The contents of this course are problem setting, literature survey, planning of research and development of teaching materials, and basic experiments for developing teaching materials.  
Class Schedule Lesson 1: Orientation
Lesson 2: Selection of the Topic (1)
Lesson 3: Selection of the Topic (2)
Lesson 4: Literature Review on the Topic (1): Problem setting
Lesson 5: Problem Analysis on the Topic (2): Consider the Problem
Lesson 6: Literature Review on the Topic (3): Identifying the Issue
Lesson 7: Problem Analysis on the Topic (4): Examining Solutions to the Problem
Lesson 8: Planning for Teaching Material Development Research towards Solving the Problem
Lesson 9: Basic Experiments for Teaching Material Development (1): Planning Pre-experiments
Lesson 10: Basic Experiments for Teaching Material Development (2): Collecting Preliminary Data
Lesson 11: Basic Experiments for Teaching Material Development (3): Analyzing Preliminary Data
Lesson 12: Basic Experiments for Teaching Material Development (4): Discussion of Results
Lesson 13: Basic Experiments for Teaching Material Development (5): Conducting the Experiment
Lesson 14: Basic Experiments for Teaching Material Development (6): Analyzing the Experiment
Lesson 15: Summary 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Handouts will be given appropriately. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
Handouts, moodle
(More Details) Handouts 
Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, PBL (Problem-based Learning)/ TBL (Team-based Learning), Project Learning, Post-class Report
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
You should research proper documents on information processing, understand their contents, write a report about theories and methods related to them, and make a presentation.

Lesson 1: Understand the purpose and methods of this course.
Lesson 2: Be aware of the problems in information.
Lesson 3: Think about problems.
Lesson 4: Recognize where the problems in information content studies lie.
Lesson 5: Think about how to solve the problems in information content studies.
Lesson 6: Examine the previous studies.
Lesson 7: Examine related research.
Lesson 8: Define the topic of your research project.
Lesson 9: Plan to conduct basic experiments.
Lesson 10: Collect data.
Lesson 11: Analyze the data based on the preliminary data.
Lesson 12: Discuss the results.
Lesson 13: Conduct the experiment.
Lesson 14: Analyze the results of the experiment.
Lesson 15: Discuss the validity of the experimental results. 
Requirements  
Grading Method comprehensive evaluation of report and presentation 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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