Great Test for the Memory-A Study of Memory Strategies with Meta-Cognition on the Learning Performance for the Elementary School Second Graders Students

• Main Authors: Jang Ping Hwa, 張萍華
• Other Authors: 耿筱曾
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99939104814881438220

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 95 === Great Test for the Memory –A Study of Memory Strategies with Meta-Cognition on the Learning Performance for the Elementary School Second Graders Students Abstract The purpose of this study was to use a memory strategy based on meta-cognition to analyze the learning progress and learning performance of rapid memory. To reaching the aforementioned research purpose, this study adopted “questionnaire survey” as pilot study, and qualitative research with “semi-structural interviews” as primary research strategies. The subjects were 24 second graders from an elementary school of the Taipei County. They received 12 weeks of curriculum designed by the researcher on memory strategies. The research tools included an interview outline and learning achievement test; the sources of data collection were one to one diagnosing interview, results of the learning achievement test and the teaching journal of the researcher, as well as the learning charts and teaching evaluation from the research targets, et al. The collected data was then analyzed and processed using Triangulation Method. The major findings of this study were as follows: 1. The accuracy and efficiency of memorization could be effectively improved if students could use appropriate memory strategies, e.g. to remember years, 30 objects, Zodiac signs and months, Allied Forces of the Eight Powers, the nine planets, English words, et al. 2. Learners would find that learning is easier and more fun and the burdening of learning would be reduced, if interesting memory strategies could be adopted. 3. The memory strategy adopted in the study was graphical thinking that stimulates the operation of the right side of the human brain by association, assonance, et al., as well as makes use of personal creativity and the ability of association, reaching the objective of rapid learning using memory strategies based on meta-cognition 4. The memory strategies adopted in the study was to train the human brain to simplify data by selecting necessary materials from massive and complicated amounts of information, so that the reader was able to learn only the important points, to have good strategies and make decisions. Also, students would also be able to know themselves more based on metacognition. Lastly, the researcher provided concrete teaching suggestions and subsequent research proposals based on the results of the study. Keywords: memory strategy, meta-cognition, learning performance