Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Changes in students learning approaches/attitudes when transitioning from high schools to universities is an importanttopic in Japanese higher education researches. In previous Japanese research, case studies have discussed students learningexperiences and attitudes in high schools and universities. However, most of them only discussed the difference and thesimilarity between high school and university and did not suggest the ways of connecting two different or similar learningsystems. The present study conducted surveys using two questionnaires that examined first-year undergraduate studentslearning experience in high school, learning attitude at the start of the semester, and learning experience and attitude at theend of the semester. The analysis of the startend of the semester suggests there were two different learning attitudes: onethat is continued from high school and difficult to be affected by the learning experience in university and the other that ischangeable through active and communicative learning experiences in university.