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September 18 to 19, 2011
We made an oral presentation on the validity of measuring teamwork skills and on understanding team structure at the 52nd Congress of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology held on September 18-19, 2011, at Nagoya University.
August 31 to September 4, 2011
We made an oral presentation on "Measuring Teamwork Competencies Implicitly Through Projective Responses to Computer Graphics (CG)" at the 11th European Conference on Psychological Assessment held at the University of Latvia from August 31 to September 4, 2011.
July 21st, 2011
We made a presentation at the poster session of The International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS 2011) held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. In this presentation, a multi-dimensional continuous item response model for Probability Testing (PT) was proposed.
July 21st, 2011
This report describes the poster presentation entitled "Setting a Target Test Information Function for Assembly of IRT-Based Classification Tests," which was given at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS 2011) held in the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. More than 50 posters were presented in the session, and researchers in psychometrics engaged in active discussions with each other.
July 16th, 2011
I participated in the 22nd Meeting of the Japanese Society for Curriculum Studies (JSCS) held at Hokkaido University from July 16th to 17th, 2011 and gave a presentation at the independent research session. This report is the outline of my presentation.
March 8th, 2011
I made a presentation at the poster session of the 17th Annual Convention of The Association for Natural Language Processing held at Toyohashi University of Technology from March 8th to 10th, 2011.
December 18th, 2010
I participated in a meeting held by the Japan Society for Educational Technology on “FD utilizing ICT and the partnership between senior high school/higher education and the general public.” It was held at the Dannoharu Campus of Oita University. I made a presentation on “The comparison of paper and digital media for manga text.”
October 23rd, 2010
I made an oral presentation at the Research Conference of JSET held at Ibaragi University on Oct. 23rd, 2010. It was on the research that has been continuing since 2009 on annotations for paper testing. My presentation focused on a simple question on the relationship between the annotation volume while reading and academic achievement.
September 18 - 20, 2010
I made a presentation at the poster session of the 26th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Educational Technology (JSET) held at Kinjo Gakuin University. This is the report and my observation on the presentation.
September 18 - 20, 2010
A poster presentation was given at the 26th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Educational Technology held at Kinjo-Gakuin University from September 18th to 20th, 2010.
September 17 - 18, 2010
I participated in, and gave an oral presentation at the 51st Convention of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology, held at Hiroshima University from September 17th to 18th, 2010. Hiroshima was hot with the end-of-summer heat.
September 17 - 18, 2010
I attended and gave my poster presentation at the 51st Convention of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology held from September 17th to 18th, 2010 at Hiroshima University. My presentation was attended by around 13 people.
September 6th, 2010
CRET and Benesse Corporation have engaged in joint research from 2008 to 2009. This consisted of preliminary research on a statistical and mathematical processing test for university students, followed by the development of training materials. I have presented the outcome of this joint research at the planning session entitled “cross-sectional human resources development” at the 2010 Convention of the Japanese Federation of Statistical Science Association. Approximately 120 researchers and educators participated in the session. This report covers the content of my presentation with a focus on the weaknesses of university students in the area of statistical and mathematical processing, and the composition of the training materials.
August 29th, 2010
The Assessment and Analysis of Educational Testing of CRET has been conducting research and development on multiple-choice vocabulary tests on different subjects. Part of the research outcome was shared through an oral presentation entitled “A study on the subject vocabulary of Japanese Language and Math” given at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology.
August 27 - 29, 2010
I have given an oral presentation at the 52nd General Assembly of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology held at Waseda University (Waseda Campus) from August 27th to 29th, 2010.
August 30th, 2010
CRET has been engaged in continuous research and development of the abilities and competences required in the 21st century. The research outcome was presented at the JART 8th annual meeting entitled "Measurement of Skills", in one of which planning sessions we discuss the theme of "Assessment and learning of problem solving". Approximately 70 researchers and professionals in the education field attended the session. The following is a report on the presentation made, focusing on the formulation process of DeSeCo key competencies.
August 30 - 31, 2010
The Japan Association for Developmental Education (JADE) National convention was held at the Shonan Institute of Technology on August 30 & 31, 2010. The chairman of the convention executive committee was Mr. Ryuichi Mizumachi, a CRET researcher. Another CRET researcher, Mr. Masashi Misono, also worked as an active member of the committee.
July 30 - August 4, 2010
An oral presentation was made at The 92nd National Arithmetic/Mathematics Education Research Convention, held from July 30 to August 4, 2010 in Niigata. This is a joint research with Dr. Akihiro Yoshida, lecturer at Musashi University and Junior & Senior High School at Komaba, University of Tsukuba University.
July 11 - 16, 2010
We participated in the International Congress of Applied Psychology, ICAP2010, held in Melbourne, Australia, from July 11th to 16th, and gave a presentation using electronic posters.
July 8th, 2010
This report describes the oral presentation entitled "an Item Response Model for Probability Testing," which was given at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS 2010) held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Approximately 30 people, most of whom were researchers in psychometrics, participated in the session.
July 3 - 4, 2010
The re-analysis outcome of the comparative survey on study motivations and mathematics ability of junior high school students in Japan and in China was presented at the 21st Assembly of the Japanese Society for Curriculum Studies held at Saga University on July 3rd and 4th, 2010.
June 27 - July 1, 2010
This presentation was made at ED-MEDIA201, held in Toronto, Canada from June 27th to July 1st, 2010. This is a joint research by Toshihiko Takeuchi and Tomohiro Wakui (Ibaraki University).
May 15th, 2010
We have experimented on the effects of modern character images uttering encouraging words to the test takers at the beginning and in the middle of tests. The results were orally presented at a research conference of the Japan Society for Educational Technology held on the Asahikawa Campus of the Hokkaido University of Education.
May 15th, 2010
An experiment was conducted to compare CBT and paper testing for regular expressions among university students and the result was orally presented at a research conference of the Japan Society for Educational Technology held at the Asahikawa Campus of the Hokkaido University of Education.
October 10-12, 2009
A presentation on the development of the scale to measure teamwork capabilities was given at JSSP2009/JGDA2009(SP50).
October 10-12, 2009
Report on the JSSP 2009/JGDA 2009 (SP50) Presentation:
"Assessment of Shyness using IAT (2)"
This is a report on the poster presentation given to the JSSP 2009/JGDA 2009 (SP50) on shyness assessment, using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). A fruitful discussion with many exchanges of opinions followed the presentation.
October 27th, 2009
In late October 2009, we presented our research on the use of animation to display math problems in the computer-based testing interface, at the international conference, E-Learn (World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009) held in Vancouver, Canada.
October 24th, 2009
The outcome of the research introduced at the research activity report this summer was presented at Japan Society for Educational Technology held at Shinshu University on October 24, 2009.
The following is the gist of the report, the Q&A, and observations.
October 24th, 2009
Students generally use annotations while taking tests, such as underlining and marking key words, or scribbling in the margin of test sheets. It is possible with paper-based tests, but usually not with CBTs. If annotation gives positive effects on the test performance, CBTs need to be equipped with a comparable interface in order to avoid differences between CBTs and PBTs, caused by the ability or inability to annotate. If, however, there is no difference in performance, with or without annotation, there is no need to make an enhancement to CBTs with an interface for annotation.
This research was conducted in a simple test to study the effect of annotation by comparing the results between two groups: one allowed to use annotation and the other not allowed to use it. The relationship between the examinees?Eannotation activities in daily life and the control of annotation activities was also investigated.
September 2nd, 2009
Dr. Kanji Akahori, a member of the CRET board of directors, has given the presentation at the 5th National Convention on the Japan Association for Developmental Education, held at Chitose Institute of Science and Technology from September 1st to 2nd, 2009.
His report was based on the findings of the Design Based Research applied to analyze classroom teaching, design and assess the freshmen education at the universities and colleges.
August 5th, 2009
A research group in the Assessment and Analysis of Educational Testing section has been engaged in the research and development of multiple-choice testing to measure the mastery of vocabulary for key school subjects. This is part of a more general project which is intended to develop methods to predict mastery of school subjects in simpler manners.
In 2008, the research group developed vocabulary tests for four key subjects (Japanese, arithmetic/mathematics, science, and social studies) and a PISA-type knowledge application competency test. A preliminary survey was conducted targeting fifth graders and eighth graders. The result was presented at the 37th Convention of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan.
March 11th, 2009
At the Research Department on Advancement of Testing Technology, we are currently researching a new test interface as a part of a motherboard development project for next-generation examinations.
