Development and Evaluation of a Support System for Creating Learning Plans by Reflection on Past Learning Plans and Learning Situations

Abstract

Our university offers a basic mathematics course in a "flipped classroom" format. During each class in this course, learners use a learning plan support system that we developed to register learning plans and learning records for out-of-class study. Previously, this system was unable to support the creation of highly feasible learning plans leading to the attainment of learning goals. In this study, we therefore developed a support system of learning plan creation that aims to promote reflection leading to the creation of a learning plan that enables learners to learn as planned and attain their learning goals. In addition, two types of reflection support functions were developed: a chatbot-based reflection function that asks questions emphasizing learning outcomes and a dashboard-based reflection function that asks questions emphasizing the implementation of the plan. In the 2020 and 2021 school years, we performed an experiment using this system in the University's basic mathematics course, and the results suggest that use of the dashboard-based reflection function may significantly improve plan implementation rates and learning completion rates, and may have enabled the creation of highly feasible learning plans. Moreover, the results of analysis of the reflection contents registered using the reflection support functions showed that more than 60% of the reflections were related to improving plan implementation rates and goal attainment rates.