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In order for high school reports to be used reliably as one of the criteria for screening, it is required that the information in the reports are identical with the records kept at high schools. The writer studied and compared the identity and differences in such reports for 291 applicants who had applied ICU more than twice in 1962, '63, and '64 examinations. Surprisingly, the large number of 70 reports (24.2%) were revealed to have differences in grades in reports submitted at different times. This means that they were falsely reported. From examining other facts, it could also be supposed that some reports without any difference in their grades were possibly not identical with the original records at school. Reports from private schools revealed more false statements than those from public or national high schools. It is said that high school records have higher predictability of college grades than the total score of the entrance examination. When high school grades are used as one of the important data for screening, however, the differences among high schools should be taken into consideration as Okabe's proposal for manipulation of reports from different high schools. In addition to false reports on grades, it was also found in a few reborts that the number of absences, overall evaluation of grades, the number of students at each grade level, and the like were falsely reported. There was a tendency for the grades in reports submitted while students were still attending the last year at high school, to be better reported than in those written after their graduation. The same was true with the overall evaluation of grades. It can be hypothesized that teachers tend to give better marks for the last year (which are expected grades) when they write reports. Records of activities were in almost all cases written in abstract and stereotyped words and could hardly be expected to provide any important information about the applicant. There is a column in the report for personality evalutaion, in which the applicant is to be evaluated on four items.; emotional stability, sociability, and citizenship, according to five-point scale (a-e). Most students were evaluated on most items either "a" or "b". Seventy per cent of the appilcants were evaluated differently in different reports, a large number of whom were evaluated even two points higher or lower. These show that this column for personality evaluation cannot possibly be used in screening. As thus revealed, there were a large numbre of false reports and meaningless evaluation which reduce the value of the high school reports in screening applicants. However, in the sense that high school grades still better predict college grades than points at entrance examination, it is wise to utilize the report and not discard it completely. In order to do so, the university should of course study better methods for utilizing it. More than. that, it is strongly hoped that the high schools which have reduced the value of their own reports should take this fact seriously and correct their attitude in reporting about their students.
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中山和彦
国際基督教大学

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