The impact of PISA on the National Assessment of Academic Ability A -type question

―Focusing on elementary school Japanese language―

Abstract

Poor performance in PISA reading comprehension. Various policies were put forward to improve reading comprehension. The National Assessment of Academic Ability also played an important role in measuring academic ability. In the National Assessment of Academic Ability, PISA-type reading comprehension is included. The National Assessment of Academic Ability is divided into A ?type question and question B ?type question. PISA type reading comprehension is also seen in A -type question. Problems A -type and B -type differ in the degree of difficulty in terms of the amount of information in the text. Answer format is A -type question is multiple choice format.