2019 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 99-119
A drastic system reform is planned for university entrance examinations in FY 2021. The changes that are expected to have the most influence are the use of English language tests provided by private companies and the introduction of constructed-response questions in joint examinations. There are also changes that will affect specific universities differently. Tohoku University was forced to revise its AO type III examination, as the schedule for reporting joint examination scores to universities will be delayed by the introduction of the constructed-response questions. In order to reflect high school opinion in revisions of university admission policy, we delivered a questionnaire to high schools which produce large numbers of enrolled students at our University. The items included questions about introducing a self-scoring method to the first-stage selection of AO type III and using constructed-response questions so on. In the results, approval for a self-scoring system was about 60%. In contrast, there was strong opposition to the use of construct-response questions. Tohoku University released a preliminary announcement concerning the FY2021 entrance examination based on the survey results.
