Studies of Psychology and Behavior ›› 2021, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (5): 701-705.

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STEAM Training Can Improve Pupils’ Attentional Inhibition and Attentional Concentration Ability

SU Mingyu, WANG Guangming   

  1. Faculty of Education, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387
  • Received:2021-03-29 Online:2021-09-20 Published:2021-09-20

STEAM训练提升小学生的注意抑制与注意集中能力

苏明宇, 王光明   

  1. 天津师范大学教育学部,天津 300387
  • 通讯作者: 王光明,E-mail:bd690310@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金“十三五”规划教育学重点课题(AFA17008);天津市研究生科研创新项目(2020YJSS095)

Abstract: STEAM training is an important method to cultivate students’ scientific literacy and skills in primary and secondary schools. During the process, students’ cognitive processes such as attention processing are trained. In this study, Stroop task and cancellation test were used to investigate the effect of STEAM on improving students’ attentional inhibition and concentration ability, and to examine whether STEAM training can effectively improve students’ attention ability. The results showed that: 1) There was no difference in the activation of goal-related information among students whether they participated in STEAM scientific training or not. 2) In terms of inhibition of goal-independent information, students who participated in STEAM training scored significantly higher than those who did not participate in STEAM training. 3) The attention concentration ability of the students who participated in STEAM training was significantly improved in the cancellation test. The whole study shows that STEAM scientific training significantly improves students’ attentional inhibition ability and attentional concentration ability in primary schools.

Key words: attentional inhibition, attentional concentration, Stroop task, cancellation test, STEAM

摘要: STEAM训练是培养中小学生科学素养和科学技能的重要方法,在完成STEAM课程的过程中,学生的注意等认知能力得到训练。本研究采用前后测设计,被试匹配为实验组和控制组,利用Stroop任务和划销测验考察STEAM课程在提升小学生注意抑制与注意集中能力方面的作用。结果发现:(1)在对目标信息的激活方面,实验组学生与控制组学生的成绩无显著差异;(2)在对目标无关信息的抑制方面,实验组学生的成绩显著优于控制组学生;(3)划销测验中,实验组学生的注意集中成绩显著优于控制组学生。结果表明,STEAM训练可以显著提高小学生的注意抑制能力和注意集中能力。

关键词: 注意抑制, 注意集中, Stroop任务, 划销测验, STEAM

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