2017 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 3-19
The purpose of this paper is to investigate score changes for test re-takers in University Entrance Examination system. This study uses the score data of the 1964 test takers of the Educational Test Research Institute who took the 1965 test. The test of the Educational Test Research Institute (NOKEN Test) is conducted from 1963 to 1968.
As results of these score analysis, the order that is gained by the following test score (in senior [12 grade]) is not different with the order that is gained by the previous test score (in junior [11 grade]). And score change between the previous test and the following test can be interpreted as regression effect. Furthermore, when the total score that added the following test score to the previous test one, the value of multiple correlation coefficients adjusted for the degrees of freedom is declined in multiple regression analysis.
This is why caring out examinations twice and more during same year and using test score in previous another year is not always insisted to be significant in University Entrance Examination system in Japan, at least in NOKEN test era.
