Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. has built a "descriptive digital scoring system" in which graders grade scan data of answer sheets in various tests on a Web browser, and will start providing it in January 2022.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is urging the enhancement of descriptive questions in individual entrance exams, as the introduction of descriptive questions was postponed in the common test for universities.However, in the field where each examinee scores the answer sheet and inputs the score, it is necessary to make a pass / fail judgment in a very limited time.It is presumed that 9% of national and public universities impose descriptive questions, while private universities only have about 4% of them, because of the schedule, they are not adopting descriptive questions (MEXT). Ministry of Science, "Fact-finding Survey on 4 English Skills and Descriptive Problems in Selection of University Enrollees / 2nd Year of Ordinance").
In response to this situation, Kyodo Printing started the development of a "descriptive digital scoring system".In this system, graders are sorted according to the question in advance, and the grader continuously grades the same question on the Web.By converting the score into data at the same time as scoring, it will lead to a significant reduction in scoring time.It is also possible to deal with problems that describe processes like mathematics and essays.By eliminating human errors such as lost answer sheets, omission of scoring, and erroneous score input, the efficiency of scoring work can be improved, and score data such as the correct answer rate can be easily analyzed, which can be expected to improve the quality of the entire work.
Kyodo Printing will provide a "test management support service" that entrusts the examination work together with this "descriptive digital scoring system" to support the work efficiency of universities and qualification examination organizations.
