2013 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 27-36
As a part of university entrance examinations, essay tests are often carried out in addition to subject tests. However, the relationships between essay tests and subject tests are vague. In this study, we administered two types of essay tests and eight subjects of National center test for university admissions to the same examinees and analyzed the relationships between their test scores each other. The results showed that the correlation between the two essay tests was medium and that the correlations between the essay tests and National Center Tests were low. Principal factor analysis with promax rotation was performed on test scores, and three factors, namely, essays, liberal arts subjects, and science subjects were extracted. These results also suggested that performance on essay tests was related to that on liberal arts tests, but that the former type of test measured abilities different from those assessed by subject tests.
