There was a scoring error in Yamagata University's 2023 General Entrance Examination, causing five examinees to fail.The Yamagata University Recurrence Prevention Review Committee has announced the results of its investigation and announced that the specialized department that oversees the entire entrance exam We recommended the establishment of a new one.Based on the findings, Yamagata University will implement measures to prevent recurrence.
According to Yamagata University, the verification revealed that the grading errors were caused by multiple faculty members overlooking the mistakes despite having checked them, and blamed the problem on the faculty's lack of awareness.In response to this, the review committee is careful to avoid preconceived notions by having teachers solve the questions themselves and then comparing them with the example answers when grading, rather than proceeding mechanically while looking at example answers. He points out that it is necessary to work while
It also recommends the establishment of a new specialized department, the Admissions Center (tentative name), to supervise entrance examination operations, with full-time faculty members responsible for conducting entrance examinations, including title writing, peer review, proofreading, and scoring.Furthermore, they hope that the governance system will be further strengthened, such as by establishing an ``Entrance Examination Planning and Strategy Office (tentative name)'' in the Strategic Headquarters, which will evaluate and analyze current entrance exams and discuss what new entrance exams should be.
In Yamagata University's 2023 General Entrance Examination, there was an error in the sample answers used by university instructors for scoring a total of three questions in physics and chemistry in the first semester, which resulted in a total of five applicants for the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering being mistakenly rejected. .Yamagata University took steps to admit applicants, but in order to prevent it from happening again, it set up a review committee to investigate the cause of the mistake.
Yamagata University President Hidetoshi Tamate released a comment on his website saying, ``We take this incident seriously and will steadily implement preventive measures to prevent a situation like this from happening again.''
