Unlocking the Future of Education: Exploring the Latest Insights at the 2024 Japanese Association of Educational Psychology 3rd Public Symposium

About the 3rd Public Symposium in 2024

The Japanese Society of Educational Psychology holds public symposiums with the aim of promoting research on educational psychology and returning the results of this research to society.
Below is information about the 3rd public symposium in 2024. Anyone is welcome to attend, so please apply.

theme

Unravelling the issue of fairness in university entrance exams
–Approach from psychology and sociology–

Distribution period

Available on demand from September 1, 2024

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plan

Japanese Society of Educational Psychology General Meeting Planning Committee

host

Tomohiro Miyamoto (Tohoku University)

Explanation of the project purpose

Tomokazu Haebaru (University of Tokyo) and Naoki Kuramoto (Tohoku University)

Topic provided

Fairness as a psychological construct

Yoichiro Hayashi (Keio University)

Fairness issues from the perspective of social stratification and selection structure theory
–Sociological approach–

Takayasu Nakamura (University of Tokyo)

The fairness of university entrance examinations from a psychometric perspective
—From issues surrounding score adjustments to reforms to the transition from high school to university —

Naoki Kuramoto (Tohoku University)

University entrance examinations from the perspective of examinees’ sense of fairness

Nishigori Dai (Saga University)

designated discussion

Tomokazu Haebaru (University of Tokyo)

Project Purpose

The “fairness of university entrance examinations” has attracted public attention and been much discussed, including differences in the difficulty of elective subjects, quotas for women and regions, reasonable consideration for disabled applicants, differences in exam opportunities based on place of residence, and differences in learning experiences leading up to taking the exam. Even in the recent reform of the common test, there were discussions about whether it would be possible to make fair comparisons between different exams when introducing private English exams, and whether it would be possible to fairly grade a large number of answer sheets if essay-style questions were introduced.
University entrance examinations have become increasingly diversified in recent years, and as a result, the question of what a fair entrance examination should be is now more important than ever. In this context, this symposium will bring together researchers who have tackled the issue of fairness from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology, and we hope to use this opportunity to go back to the basics of what constitutes fairness and delve deeper into the issue, in order to consider how we can design future university entrance examinations.