Level : Intermediate
Wakako Fushikida, Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
I conducted a questionnaire survey for 130 faculty members to reveal extra-curricular activities related to undergraduate seminars affectionately called "Zemi" To the question "what kind of following extra-curricular activities did you offer students out of the seminar?", the faculty members were required to answer 11 items on a 5-point scale.
First, after confirming the status of the items with extreme bias from histograms and frequency distribution tables using "univariate distribution"the following three items were selected as common extra-curricular activities : "Drinking party (average = 3.39, SD = 1.20) ","Camp (average = 2.68, SD = 1.64) ", and"Sub-zemi (average = 2.54, SD = 1.45). " Second, relationship between the three items 'scores were visualized based on faculty members'research fields using "three-dimensional scatter plot" The figure shows that the frequency of "Camp"and "Sub-zemi"in social sciences are higher than the other fields. Finally, the results of a regression analysis indicate that undergraduate seminars in social sciences and recognition of extra-curricular activities 'importance by faculty members affect the frequency of the common extra-curricular activities in undergraduate seminars ( F (6, 105) = 3.82, p = 0.00).
