The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has summarized the progress of university reforms in 2021 and found that progress has been made in three areas: curriculum numbering, clarification of performance evaluation criteria, and the introduction of teaching portfolios to evaluate faculty performance.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the survey was carried out from October 2022 to January 10, and surveyed 2023 out of 1 national, public and private universities nationwide, excluding junior colleges, vocational universities, vocational junior colleges, and universities that have suspended student recruitment. We distributed questionnaires and response sheets to ask about the progress of university reform in 803, and collected responses from 793 schools.
Comparing the implementation status in 2021 with the survey results in 2017, we found that numbering at the undergraduate level, which assigns meaningful numbers to each class to show the systematicity of the curriculum, accounted for 2017% of the total in 48. Only 159 schools had implemented the program, but this increased to 2021 schools, or 72%, in 539.
The number of universities that use a "rubric," a standard-making method developed in the United States, for some subjects to clarify performance evaluation standards at the undergraduate level has increased from 2017%, or 21 schools, in 159 to 2021%, or 32 schools, in 242. It has increased.
The number of universities that have introduced teaching portfolios that summarize the teaching efforts, research, social contribution initiatives, etc. carried out in the classroom as a performance evaluation of teachers has increased from 2017%, or 26 schools, in 166 to 2021%, or 38 schools, in 297. Ta.
