著者

金 愛花

出版者

東京大学大学院教育学研究科

雑誌

東京大学大学院教育学研究科紀要 (ISSN:13421050)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, pp.115-123, 2009-03-10

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East Asian Countries are known for fierce competition over acceptance in higher education institutions. That creates significant social pressures on the entrance examination systems. Issues frequently arise particularly in three aspects, i.e., academic relevance of the tested knowledge, fairness of the process, and the relative degree of control given to the government and individual institutions. This paper focuses on the last aspect, comparing China, Japan and Korea from this perspective./ First, postwar developments in the entrance examination system are briefly summarized and compared. In the following section, the relative significance of the three elements in the examination process, i.e., nationally unified examination, entrance examination administered by individual institutions, and the achievements in high schools. The third section presents an interpreted of this from the perspective of how the control over entrance examination is distributed, and how entrance examination is set within the political contexts of the three different countries.