伏見 陽児

This study was conducted in order to investigate the effects of learning material construction on concept learning. The learning objectives were for the students to acquire the basic concepts of electricity and magnetism. The students were asked to differentiate between metallic and non-metallic materials and determine which materials the magnets attracted and which materials the magnets did not attract. The students were divided into three groups. Groups A and B learned about the basic concept of electricity first, and second about the concept of magnetism. Group C learned about these concepts in the opposite order. The difference between Group A and Groups B and C was that it was easy for Group A to recognize the hierarchical structure of the learning materials, but not for Groups B and C. It was found in this experiment that concept learning of electricity and magnetism is influenced by the hierarchical structure of learning materials, but not by sequence.