We teach Eiken at the kindergarten/juku I work at, and I had a question about if you teach it also.
For the test tomorrow, they have already unsealed some tests and are looking through it. This already feels really unethical. What is the situation at your school?
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If the school is going to be submitting the test results as genuine test results to the Eiken organization, yes. If they’re doing it for pedagogic purposes, no, it doesn’t seem so bad if, for example, they’re going to simulate a test and observe the test-takers to see what parts of the test a problematic.
That is as dodgy AF.
Eiken would absolutely cancel your schools ability to hold the test, if not sue them outright. So, yeah, it is unethical.
If it’s the teachers who are looking through it, I believe they are allowed to open the test up to a day before. I may be wrong though. It’s written somewhere in the instructions that are provided with the test.
I have never been allowed to see the test, teachers don’t even know where the tests are kept in the building.
We are running the STEP Eiken tomorrow, we got the crate of test papers etc. today and opened it to get ready for the test. We need to count the question papers, make sure all the marksheets are in there, make sure the CDs work, etc.
We are not even going to see the students taking the test tomorrow until they come for the test, and certainly won’t be sharing information or questions with them.
Don’t really see a problem.
Except for using STEP Eiken with small children: https://sendaiben.org/2016/03/07/young-children-and-step-eiken/