受験生の工学部離れを検証する

• 滝 紀子

  学校法人河合塾 教育研究部

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Examining the Tendency of Students′ Shying Away from Departments of Engineering

抄録

Although Japan professes to be a scientific and technological country, more and more students have refused to apply to departments of engineering. From fiscal year 1992 through fiscal year 2008 the number of university applicants dropped to 71.6%. The number of applicants for engineering departments dropped to 61.1%, which is sharper than the decline in the number of total applicants. Among all faculties of national and public universities, engineering departments (first stage of individual exam) have the lowest difficulty level. Almost half of the engineering departments in national and public universities allow more than 50% of their applicants to pass the exam. The gap in difficulty level of entrance examinations between topnotch national universities and rural public universities has been expanding. The difficulty of entrance examination of medical technology departments is much higher than that of engineering ones. However, high-performing students have been enrolling in medical technology departments. For private universities, the gap in the number of engineering applicants between major metropolitan universities and rural ones has become considerable. Almost half of the high school teachers have realized the tendency of students' shying away from engineering departments. The contents of learning of engineering departments are too segmentalzed to understand, which makes it difficult for students to get an image of what they can do in their future after graduation. It is crucial for engineering departments to offer easy-to-understand information on future occupations to junior high students and high school students.

収録刊行物

• 工学教育

  工学教育 57 (3), 8-13, 2009

  公益社団法人 日本工学教育協会

キーワード

• 工学部離れ
• 低倍率
• 地方大学
• 医療技術系
• 低い入試難易度

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001204493871616
• NII論文ID: 10025567884
• NII書誌ID: AN10486063
• DOI: 10.4307/jsee.57.3_8
• ISSN: 18810764
• ISSN: 13412167
• 本文言語コード: en
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