Abstract
This study is intended to trace an encouraging policy to school affairs through the process of modernization on the examination system of the elementary school attached : Morioka Teachers' School, especially early Meiji era, and on the evaluation on educational history of Isei SHIMA and Hisayoshi KANOU, who made a practice to reform the educational system in Iwate Prefecture, as educational history. I have attempted to investigate historical and educational conditions of competitive examination and monthly examination, though actively or passively appreciating reports of pupils' score on a test of the attached school and the others. These examination, given in schools in this era, awarded the qualification to pupils promoted the next form or graduation, and improved teaching methods or outlined program of instruction. Today, particularly almost all aspects concerning ill effects of entrance examination system in schools or colleges are discussed in relation to social background. In this study it is brought some fundamental problems from the view-point of historical perspective on objects, methods and forms of examination in school system of today were pointed out.
