High School General Course "Information" at Present and Introductory Education at University

2003年在高中引入的普通科目“信息研究”由三门科目“信息A”、“信息B”和“信息C”组成。然而，据悉，致力于升学教育的学校对信息学习的关注较少。因此，为了重构大学课程，我们进行了以下调查。1.从全国学校采用的教科书数量看信息学的整体情况2.对高中生入学前辅导的问卷调查3.对信息学教师的访谈从这些调查中得出以下结论：(1)尽管日本仍有3/4的学校采用信息学A，但信息学B和C正在增加。(2)信息学应该向低年级学生提供，因为学生在信息学中学到的技能在其他普通学科领域也是有用的。然而，只有…全国平均有超过61%的一年级学生学习信息学习，有些地区甚至不到50%。信息学习的机房数量和教师数量可能会成为未来降低学年的障碍。(3)虽然信息学习是一门两学分的课程，但大约20%的学校只花了一学分的课时。另一方面，由于目前一些高水平学校的信息学课程内容，特别是实践练习的内容不尽如人意，国家课程标准应予以完善。(4)信息学课时实践练习对提高学生的计算机操作技能效果不佳，因此可以减少练习时间。(5)信息学教师开展的许多学校工作不被其他学科的同事理解，许多州没有聘请只有信息学教师资格证的教师。因此，学校未来可能会面临困难，以保留必要数量的教师信息学教师执照。(6)大部分学校的信息技术设备和环境已有很大改善，但没有得到充分利用。由于第一批高中学习信息学的毕业生进入大学才一个月，目前大学里与信息学相关的入门课程不能被太多讨论。然而，在本报告中，说明了一种根据本次调查中获得的客观数据修改提交人所在大学信息入门课程内容的方法。此外，从作者所在大学一年级学生的问卷调查数据中证实了这种更改是正确的。较少

General subject area "Information Study" introduced into upper secondary schools in 2003 consists of three subjects "Information A", "Information B" and "Information C". It is, however, heard that schools devoting to the student education for entering universities give less attention to Information Study. Thus, to reconstruct curriculum at universities, the following investigations were carried out.1.Overall view of the Information Study from the number of textbooks adopted schools in nationwide2.Questionnaires conducted for upper secondary school students at pre-entrance guidance to university3.Interviews to Information Study teachersFrom these investigations, the following conclusions were derived.(1)Although 3/4 of schools in Japan are still adopting Information A, Information B and C are increasing.(2)Information Study should be offered to students at lower school year since the skills that students learn in Information Study are useful in other general subject areas. However, only … More 61% of 1st-year-students studied Information Study in nationwide average, and even less than 50% can be found in some prefectures. The number of PC-rooms and teachers of Information Study could be a barrier for pulling down to lower school year in future.(3)Although Information Study is a 2-credit course, approximately 20% of schools spend only 1-credit school hour. The National Curriculum Standards should be improved on the other hand since the present contents, particularly the practical exercises, in Information Study are not satisfactory for some high-level schools.(4)The practical exercise in class hours of Information Study is not effective for raising students' operational skills of computers, and thus, hours for exercises can be reduced.(5)Many school works carried out by Information Study teachers are not understood by colleagues in other subject areas and many prefectures do not employ teacher with only Information Study Teacher License. Thus, schools may face difficulties in future to keep the necessary number of teachers with Information Study Teacher License.(6)Equipments and Environments of IT have been substantially improved at most schools, but those are not being fully used.The introductory courses at universities related to Information Study can not be much discussed at present since the first graduates who had studied Information Study during upper secondary schools entered to universities only a month ago. In the present report, however, illustrated was a way to alter contents of an introductory information course at the author's university based upon objective data obtained in the present investigation. Furthermore, it was confirmed that such alternation was correct from data of questionnaires carried out for freshmen at the author's university. Less