由能力分班測驗考察新生日語能力的兩極化（An Examination of The Bimodal Distribution of College Freshmen's Japanese Competence in the Placement Tests）

プレースメント・テストに見る新入生日本語力の両極化

以台灣某科技大學應用日語系能力分班測驗的實施情況為例加以整理報告。該大學應用日語系在新生入學時施行能力分班測驗。本研究對2006年度至2010年度五年來的實行狀況及成績的分布變化加以介紹。觀察結果，該大學的能力分班測驗的全體平均分數有逐年減低的傾向，新生的日語能力也參差不齊。尤其是後者，M字型的成績分布為其明顯特徵。只是，這個結果還受到學生人數、背景、招生條件、能力分班測驗考場環境等等的影響。例如，聽力測驗時周圍出現雜音、日本籍的新生也參加能力分班測驗、因應大學招生條件的改變，觀光商業相關科系的新生增加等等，都會對測驗結果產生重大影響。因此，很難一概而論。就現況與問題點加以介紹後，探討如何活用此研究結果。

This is a report on the administ rations and the results of placement tests in a Department of Japanese at one university of science and technology in Taiwan. At that department of Japanese ,placement teare administeredoncea year to college freshmen after enroll mentinorder to place the min classes appropriate to their proficiency levels.This report presents the results of the placement tests and the changes in as well as distributions of the test takers'scores across five years. It is discovered that the average scores in the placement tests a dministereddeon strated a declining trend along with a wide variation in freshmen's Japanese competence.A particularly prominent feature is that freshmen's test performance showed an M-shape distributions of the test scores in the placement tests. However, the above observed phenomen a may be affected by factors such as the number of students, students'backgrounds, different qualifications for a dmission,and the environments where the placement tests we read ministered.For example,native Japanese taking the placement tests and an increasing number of non - Japanese majors due to changing qualifications for university admission may all have influenced greatly the results ofthe placeenttests.Thus,the findings presented here can not be simply generalized.