Curriculum Design for Japanese Lower Secondary Technology Education and Its Assessment of Pupils' Self-reflective Thinking

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The first purpose is to design a school-based curriculum for Japanese lower secondary technology education focused on pupils' self-reflective learning activities. The second is to develop a system to support pupils' self-reflective learning activities and to associate them with curriculum improvement by using wireless LAN system. In this case study, we focused on Grade 8 pupils in a compulsory technology and homemaking classroom in the Lower Secondary School Attached to the Joetsu University of Education. After every coursework, pupils reflected on the effort of this class and entered it by network-connected personal digital assistance. And, the data entered by them was discussed what and how to plan next class and to improve teaching and learning process. These actions had been repeated till the last coursework. From after viewpoints, the results of this study were summarized as follows;1.System developmentThe purpose of this system is to upload pupils' self-assessment information on the web service and to share it with pupils and teachers. This system could update ODBC Database using 'Internet Database Connector', one of the function of Internet Information Services 5.0. We used Microsoft Access 2000 as Database software.2.Case studyThe key point in change of 'planned curriculum' was pupils' worrying about their capabilities of designing and making a unique communicating tool. Pupils could finish their product, by the extension of Module 3 and detailed support for the coursework depending on the context of classes. Therefore, identifying what is going on in a class is essential to a curriculum improvement. In doing so focusing on pupils' self-reflective activity to identify what is going on in class is very helpful on designing a school-based curriculum.