- 著者
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田村 幸男
高橋 俊一
赤平 有子
笠原 龍司
- 出版者
- 山形大学
- 雑誌
- 山形大学紀要. 社会科学 = Bulletin of Yamagata University. Social Science
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.38, no.1, pp.67-106, 2007-07-31
The university entrance examination is a venue that takes the form of an agreement between the university and the applicant that the latter may become a member of the university. In order for such examinations to proceed such that there is mutual satisfaction on both sides, in addition to the test itself, another item of importance is the nature of the test-performing organization. The present paper focuses on an aspect that has not been considered much hitherto, namely ”university entrance examination organizations.” The paper does not present the system overall, but rather places its focus on response policies of individual universities. Quantitative investigation was made of the actual status of university entrance examination organizations, and qualitative understanding was gained by means of on-site visit-based surveys. Also, via comparison of the history of the entrance examination system of Japan with these systems of other major countries, elucidation is made of the basic points of the contemporary Japanese entrance examination system. On the basis of these surveys and research, with Yamagata University used as the model, suggestions are made regarding the ideal nature of entrance-examination organizations. The present paper is a joint paper of four persons, Tamura,Takahashi,Akahira, and Kasahara Chiefly, it was Tamura who provided the overall summary as well as Chapters 2 and 3, which Takahashi,Akahira, and Kasahara were in charge of data collection, on-site visit surveys, and Chapter 1. The present paper can be characterized as a continuation of ”Research on dispersed campuses in Japan” of Tamura Both papers take as their starting point concrete problems of Yamagata University, perform survey and analysis of structural aspects of Japanese universities, and clarify characteristics, problem points, etc. Based on these results, presentation is made of problem resolution policies for Yamagata University as based on its own unique conditions. The more than 700 four-year universities in Japan are not only divided into national, public, and private universities, each university also has its own history, its own numbers and arrangements of school departments, its own determined student numbers, and its own unique university culture. Thus, even for those problems shared in common by universities, a general solution can concern a policy related to the number of universities. Herein, while seeking for common elucidation of problem points, the search for a unique solution within Yamagata University is thought to also represent an effective general solution proposal as well.