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Nakayama Lab
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A lab that explores how informatics education should be, starting from the high school subject “Information” and university entrance exams.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking informatics education through textbooks and entrance exams
The Nakayama Lab studies informatics education in schools and the “Information” subject in university entrance exams.
It examines the terms that appear in textbooks for the high school subject “Information,” and also takes part in joint research that builds a body of knowledge for the subject.
It investigates how to measure and learn programming ability through grading methods, learning tools, and classroom practice.
Prof. Nakayama has been elected a Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan for activities promoting informatics education.
Key terms
- Information I
- A compulsory course in the common high school subject “Information” that all students take
- Body of knowledge
- An overall map of what is learned in a subject, organized around terms
- Common Test for University Admissions
- The common exam for university admissions. “Information” has been included since the 2025 exam
ResearchResearch themes
At high schools, “Information I” has become a subject that all students study, and “Information” has also been added to the Common Test for University Admissions. This lab examines high school Information textbooks and university entrance exam questions, and also studies how to learn programming and how to measure programming ability.
*Illustrative imageInformation Textbooks and the Body of Knowledge
The lab collects the terms that appear in high school Information textbooks and investigates how the terms changed from “Information A, B, and C” to “Information I and II,” as well as trends in textbook revisions. In joint research, it is also working on building a body of knowledge for the subject based on these terms.
*Illustrative image“Information” in University Entrance Exams
The lab is analyzing the history and the questions of “Information” in university entrance exams. Together with researchers at other universities, it also investigates how to evaluate academic ability in informatics, using the results of mock exams.
*Illustrative imageGrading Programming and Designing Exam Questions
The lab investigates methods for awarding partial credit to program answers, and the creation and revision of exam questions using large language models (LLMs) run locally. This research considers how to measure programming ability in exams.
*Illustrative imageLearning Tools and Classroom Practice
The lab develops tools for learning “Modeling and Simulation” in high school and proposes lessons that use them. It also works on classroom practice in which first-grade elementary school students learn school subjects through programming with the Viscuit language.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYasuichi Nakayama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Geekcorps computer training class, Bamako, Mali” Robin Taylor / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Information Textbooks and the Body of Knowledge: “FL Textbook Ban 2023” Yamasztuka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- “Information” in University Entrance Exams: “Common admission test CAT” Whitecirius / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Grading Programming and Designing Exam Questions: “Programming code” Martin Vorel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Learning Tools and Classroom Practice: “Mangosuthu University of Technology Interactive Classroom” LethuAKhumalo / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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