Point-to-Point: A Reaction to Brown and Yamashita "English Language Entrance Exams at Japanese Universities: What Do We Know About Them?"

Page No.: 
255
Writer(s): 
Barry O'Sullivan, Faculty of Education, Okayama University

The article by Brown and Yamashita (JALT Journal 17[1], pp. 7-30)
serves to highlight the lack of published accounts of empirical research
in the area of university entrance test evaluation in Japan. In attempting
to achieve their stated purposes
a) to describe current testing practices at major institutions, and
b) to establish a baseline of information so that change or lack
of change in testing practices of such universities can be
monitored in future years, (p. 11)

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