Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore how the implementation of national achievement test in the form of complete survey was legitimized. In examining the politics of national achievement test, I focus on the position that claims to conduct the test in the form of complete survey from the viewpoint of “evaluation”（ utilization of individual students’ results of the test to improve teachers’ everyday classroom practice） and “guarantee of basic academic standards” through it. In the deliberations in the experts committee on national achievement test, the implementation of the test in the form of complete survey was legitimized by positioning the national achievement test apart from other existing tests in terms of survey contents. This suggests that there is the relationship that the ideal of evaluation and guarantee of academic standards regulates the contents of national achievement test.
