Regarding the English "speaking test" used in the entrance examination of Tokyo Metropolitan High School, an organization opposed to the use of the test asked the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education to conduct a demonstration experiment to investigate the effects of sound leakage.
Aiming to develop global human resources, the speaking test was conducted for the first time in Japan in November last year in the form of recording the voice of the answer in order to test the "speaking ability" of English in the entrance examination of metropolitan high school.
The city says there were no major problems, but according to university professors and others who want to stop using it for entrance exams, students who took the test said, "I heard the surrounding answers" or "the voices of others were recorded." It means that there are voices pointing out sound leakage such as.
In response to this, a group made up of university professors submitted a request to the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education to conduct a demonstration experiment to investigate the effects of sound leakage.
Hirokazu Ouchi, a professor at Musashi University and representative of the "Association for Considering Entrance Examination Reform" that submitted the request, said, "If the metropolitan government is to assume that there was no impact, it should present objective evidence as the person in charge of conducting the examination." and