Importance of satisfaction level with initiatives toward the national examination: a 4-year cross-sectional study.
Akira Kubo
PMID 34219961WHAT IT FOUND
Students who were least satisfied with national-exam preparation also reported lower satisfaction with job hunting.
In women, the least satisfied group also reported lower satisfaction with mock test scores and own effort for computer-based testing. Overall satisfaction did not differ by gender.
Key findings
01Overall satisfaction with national-exam preparation did not differ significantly between male and female students.
02Students with the lowest satisfaction with national-exam preparation were less satisfied with job hunting than those with the highest satisfaction, in both genders.
03In women, the lowest national-exam preparation satisfaction group was less satisfied with mock-test scores and own effort for computer-based testing; in men, it was less satisfied with graduation research.
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What it does not show
The study included graduates from only one campus, so it may not reflect students at other schools. Satisfaction was measured subjectively on a visual analog scale, and participants received no specific explanation about how to interpret the scale. The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show that satisfaction with exam-preparation initiatives caused lower satisfaction with job hunting, graduation research, mock-test scores, or computer-based testing. Eight participants were excluded because consent was not obtained, but the paper does not explain how this affected the analysed sample.
Declared interests
The author declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that improving national-exam preparation will raise student satisfaction or examination success. This was a cross-sectional survey of students at one campus and shows only associations.