Seeking human resources who can understand social events

　Aiming to develop human resources who can flexibly respond to changes in the times such as globalization and technological innovation, we are working to review the way of education in high schools and universities as a whole, "High School Connection Reform".The university entrance examination system reform, which will be implemented as part of this, has a guideline to evaluate the "three elements of academic ability" in a multifaceted and comprehensive manner as a standard for more accurately judging the abilities and experiences of examinees. .. The "three elements of academic ability" are "knowledge / skills", "thinking ability / judgment ability / expressive ability", and "independence / diversity / collaboration".Of these, the introduction of descriptive questions in the entrance examination is supposed to evaluate "thinking ability, judgment ability, and expressive ability", and it is expected that the introduction will gradually progress at each university from the 3 entrance examination. increase.

　At Chiba University of Commerce, a new subject called "Descriptive Comprehensive Question" will be set up from the general entrance examination in the second half of 2020.As a result, the entrance examination will be in the form of a total of 2 points, including 200 points for 40 subjects of the academic ability test, 40 points for the overall description, and 280 points for the evaluation of the survey report.

The descriptive comprehensive question is mainly a long summary, and in addition to requesting that a sentence of about 2000 characters be summarized in 200 characters, there is also a question to describe one's opinion in a shorter sentence.The long sentences to be asked will include current affairs and editorials.

"I think that the scoring of the descriptive comprehensive question will be evaluated based on criteria such as whether the summary contains multiple important points in the long sentence. Since this university is a practical university, I am looking for it. Is a human resource who has the ability to read and understand social events. In the descriptive comprehensive problem, the image is to measure the ability required for basic seminars in the first year of university. The ability to understand and organize sentences, and the ability to convey it to people. I think this exam will give you some idea of ​​what level the student will reach after enrollment. We will continue to do some work like descriptive questions. " Mr. Miss.

Possibility of future entrance exams indicated by CBT

　In addition, the university will conduct a new aptitude test in the 2021 comprehensive selection examination (formerly AO entrance examination), and for the aptitude test, CBT (Computer Based Testing) will be used to answer questions on a tablet terminal such as an iPad. We are in the process of introducing it.An iPad with questions installed will be prepared at the examination venue, and the examinees will be able to solve the problems interactively after entering their PIN.

"This time, CBT will be held for examinees of the comprehensive selection examination, so there are not many targets, but I would like to continue to introduce it in entrance examinations that measure academic ability. Ultimately, all over the country. I would like to be able to conduct CBT entrance exams online in the presence of a high school teacher. Now, even if it is an interview, it can be conducted via Skype wherever the examinee is, and all the exams are done. I feel that it is no longer the time to collect all the items in the same place and do it all at once, "says Mr. Izumi.

　At Chiba University of Commerce, examples of descriptive questions, answer examples, and CBT examples will be released in the open campus program on August 2019th and 8th, 18 in a form that can be touched and tried on the iPad, respectively. It is scheduled.