Design and practice of an acoustic education program to increase vocational awareness

Abstract

The number of elementary and junior high school students interested in natural science has recently decreased in addition to a lower birthrate. There has been a sequent fall in the number of applicants to our college. To address this problem, an acoustic education program incorporating lectures and experiments is designed and conducted for junior high school students as a first step to increasing the student's vocational awareness. The effectiveness of the program, specifically an increase in the student's vocational awareness relating to acoustics, was confirmed by the results of evaluations and questionnaires after the program was accomplished.