In a survey conducted by the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo and the Benesse Institute of Education, which clarified the actual situation of "children's lives and learning," about 2% of children in the second year of junior high school answered that they "dislike" studying. rice field.

 東京大学社会科学研究所と株式会社ベネッセホールディングスの社内シンクタンク「ベネッセ教育総合研究所」は、2014年に「子どもの生活と学び」の実態を明らかにする共同研究プロジェクトを立ち上げ、同一の親子(小学1年生から高校3年生約2万1千組)を対象に、2015年以降、複数の調査を実施している。今回は、2015年と2016年における調査から、小学1年生から高校3年生までの12学年にわたる学習の実態や変化を明らかにした。

 調査によると、学習時間の平均は、小学1年生から中学1年生まで堅調に増加するものの、中学1年生から中学2年生にかけて8分、中学3年生生から高校1年生にかけては31分減少した。また、同じ子どもの変化を1年間追跡した結果では、中学2年生の約半数、高校1年生の6割が前年よりも学習時間を減らしたことから、中だるみや学習ばなれが起きやすい学年であることがわかった。

 Only 1 to 6% of the children who answered that they dislike studying ("I don't like it at all") were in the 2st to 3th grades of elementary school, but increased by 6 points from the 2th grade to the 26.0nd grade of junior high school. However, it reached about 2% in the second grade of junior high school.Looking at the changes in "likes and dislikes" of the same child's study over a year, the ratio of "likes → dislikes" changed from 6th grade to 1st grade of junior high school (6%) and 1st grade of junior high school to 19.2nd grade of junior high school (1%). There are many.On the other hand, about 2% of children changed from "dislike to like" in all grades.

 Children who "dislike → like" studying have more time to study than other children (35 minutes increase), and 26.8% have improved their grades, compared to other children. However, the ratio was high.The percentage of children who disliked studying → "liked" was high, and the percentage of children studying with an intrinsic learning motivation of "I am happy to know new things" and the percentage of devising various learning methods were high.

Reference: [The University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science "Children's Life and Learning" Research Project] The University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science and Benesse Education Research Institute Joint Research Project "Parent-Child Survey 2016 on Children's Life and Learning" Results Bulletin

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