Abstract:

This study aimed to investigate Japanese elementary and junior high school students' at-home learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and to gather implications and hypotheses for designing learning support methods for students’ self-regulation in learning. This is a case study to explore effective home learning support guidelines by analyzing the data accumulated in an application software in which elementary and junior high school students who used it input their learning plan, the actual learning time, and learning content. The application was developed by the private tutoring school in Japan for the purpose of developing self-regulated learners. In this study, the authors initially organized an overview of the learning situation of student users in the first semester of 2020. Then, the learning characteristics of the students who achieved good results in mock tests were examined.

As a result, the students tended to study primarily in the morning on weekdays when they should have attended school unless it was closed due to COVID-19, and the high-grade group tended to take different learning strategies for each subject. It was also suggested that many of the subject-specific strategies were maintained in the first half of the second semester when their schools were reopened.

Keywords:

Self-Regulated Learning, Learning at Home, Strategy by Subject, Learning Log, COVID-19.