High school opinion on the articulation reform policy and its change

From the view point of The Principle of Prospective Student Protection

Abstract

In the university entrance examination of the 2021 academic year, the system will be changed on a larger scale than ever before. Correspondingly, Tohoku University released “notices” twice in 2018. Results of a high school survey conducted the previous academic year became a valuable basis for making decisions regarding changes to the university admissions. Therefore, to create a reference to use for making decisions for the 2022 academic year exam, we surveyed opinions on the basic policy of Tohoku University. This paper mainly reports a summary of the results of that survey, focusing especially on changes in opinion between the two surveys regarding the English tests provided by private testing companies, the introduction of which was postponed by the Ministry of Education. As a result, high schools expressed strong support for the basic policy of Tohoku University. The result drew strong attention to the power and responsibility of individual universities related to university entrance examinations.