A Study on the Trend in Logical Expression at School Science

本研究通过对国际教育成就评估协会(IEA)1995年、1999年和2003年的一系列国际数学与科学研究趋势(TIMSS)的分析和比较，试图弄清日本学生的科学成绩。特别是在以往的TIMSS调查中，日本学生对科学和学校科学逻辑表达的兴趣/愿望/态度在国际上观察到了低迷，那么在TIMSS 2003年中，这些变化如何？为了清楚起见，所有的描述性回答(句子等)在研究结果报告中，通过对TIMSS中逻辑表达的分析构建了答题题，并总结了与教师问卷结果之间的关系，包括主要参与国家/地区的教学方法和科学态度。

In this research, by the analysis and comparison of a series of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) which were administrated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) respectively in 1995, 1999 and 2003, the Japanese students' science achievement was tried to be made clear.As if the students' interest/desire/attitude to the science and logical expression at school science, that were observing low internationally in the former TIMSS surveys especially, how those changed in TIMSS2003? In order to make it clear, all the descriptive responses (the sentence etc.) of the elementary and lower secondary school students were input and analyzed.The students' responses of the science items that should be answered with sentences and drawings among booklets 1 to 12 of the mathematics and also science items that were set for about 4,700 fourth graders in the elementary schools and about 5,000 second graders in the lower secondary schools specifically were input and turned to the database.In the research result report, the analysis of logical expression in TIMSS constructed response question, and the relationship between that and the results of the teacher questionnaire including the teaching methods and the attitude towards science in the main participating nation/area were summarized.