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The objective of this study is to develop a special self-training program for students of occupational therapy forthe National Examination and to explore changes in their scholastic ability and in their consciousness as well as the relationbetween their scholastic ability and their consciousness. The new study method was developed by referring to the KJ Method.The subjects were 28 students in their junior and senior years who were enrolled in the Department of Occupational Therapyof Teikyo University of Science. The examination of the scholastic ability of the students and a questionnaire to makeevaluation of consciousness was administrated to the juniors at the start and completion of the program, and to the seniors atthe completion of the program. As a result, it was found that improvement of scholastic ability was not significant. This mayhave been due to the inability of students with poor abilities to maintain their motivations since only a single, advanced methodof study was indicated to them. Next, it was found that there is a relationship between the consciousness and the scholasticability of the students. Further, the ability to obtain a high score was related to possession of basic information about theNational Examination. In addition, whereas the consciousness of students with good ability to obtain high scores was foundto converge to a single trend, that of students with poor ability to do so was found to be widely dispersed. These findingssuggest that it is necessary to make modifications to the program in accordance with the scholastic ability of the students.

The purpose of this study is to examine how the special self-training program impacts to the students' consciousness of the National Occupational Therapy Examination and their knowledge that relates to the National Examination. The program was developed by and conducted at the Department of Occupational Therapy at Teikyo University of Science. In this program, the students inscribed the 50 exam questions and answers, and the commentary to the CD. The materials were selected from the past exam questions and given to the students. Before and after the program, the questionnaires were given to assess the consciousness of the students about national exam. Trial examinations were also conducted to examine the change of students' knowledge. Forty-three students in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades of Teikyo University of Science participated to the study. In all grades, the students were thinking that the national exam was "very important", "very difficult, and "requires special study". After the program, the ideas of national exam changed. However, the ways of changes were different in each grade. The percentages of correct answers in the trial exams before and after the program were not significantly different for the first and second year of the students. However, for the third grade students, the percentages were significantly raised after the program. The program had impact to the consciousness of the students toward the national exam. However, it did not directly help to acquire the knowledge to answer the exam questions. Rather, it has a function to raise the awareness of the national exam in the different way in each educational level.

This research is an investigation to find out student's impression towards the field of psychiatry and aims to obtain useful knowledge to conduct the class effectively. The research was conducted by a questionnaire of 50 items before and after the Introductory Clinical Internship. The analysis method used, were Principal Components Analysis, Semantic Differential Method, and Mann Whitney U test. As a result, the overall impression has changed from "sorrow and fear" to "optimistic". In the analysis according to the items, five items showed the change greatly, no judgment could be made on eight items, and four items did not show the change. These results were useful in planning the contents of the class.