Institute for DECODE: Digital Enhancement of COgnitive DEvelopment

Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development

Members

• Director
  Yasunari HARADA
• Executive Director
  Noriaki KUSUMOTO
• Participating Researchers (in alphabetic order of family names)
  Laurence ANTHONY, Associate Professor at Faculty of Science and Engineering
  Katsuhiko KAKEHI, Professor at Faculty of Science and Engineering
  Mafuyu KITAHARA, Associate Professor at Faculty of Law
  Noriaki KUSUMOTO, Associate Professor at Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences
  Toru HANDA, Teacher, Waseda University Honjo High School
  Yasunari HARADA, Professor at Faculty of Law
  Joji MAENO, Visiting Assistant Professor at Meida Network Center
  Akira MORITA, Professor at Faculty of Commerce
  Michiko NAKANO, Professor at Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences
  Yoshinori SAGISAKA, Professor at GITS
  Katsuhiko SHIRAI, Professor at Faculty of Science and Engineering
  Glenn STOCKWELL, Associate Professor at Faculty of Law
  Takahiro TACHIBANA, Teacher, Waseda University High School
  Takenobu TAKIZAWA, Professor at School of Political Science and Economics
  Yoshiyori URANO, Professor at Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunications Studies
• Visiting Researchers
  Katsuko NAKAHIRA, Research Fellow, Nagaoka University of Science and Technology
  Takeo TATSUMI, Associate Professor at Tokyo Univesity of Agriculture and Mining

Mission Statement

Institute for DECODE aims to tackle eveyday problems concerning utilization of computers and networks in education and learning in collabration with ICT experts, private and public sectors in the field and teachers and stuff of various educational institutions from learners points of view.

Institute for DECODE focuses its attention in the following research agenda concerning language e-learning.

Research Agenda

1. field testing of automated speaking/listening test of English and profiling of English learners based on its scores
2. development and validation of automated speaking/listening test of Japanese and large-scale survay of Japanese language learning based on its scores
3. compilation of non-native learner corpus of English and Japanese
4. research on utilization and mining of learning history embedded in e-learning environments such as WBT (web-based training) and/or CBT (computer-based testing) systems
5. matching between text readability and reader proficiency
6. research and development on collaborative learning utilizing the Internet

Research Outputs

• list of publications (in Japanese)

Notices

• Copyright © 2001-2006 Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University. All rights reserved.
• First drafted in Japanese December, 2001. Last revised March 15th, 2006.