caa a22 4500 463159292 CHVBK 20180406164742.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10671-007-9019-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10671-007-9019-9 The impact of education reform on the quality assurance system in Japan [Elektronische Daten] [Heidi Knipprath, Masahiro Arimoto] International assessment studies have shown since decades that Japanese students score highly on math and science tests. As a consequence, many scholars, education policy officials and journalists outside Japan share the opinion that quality of education is ensured and turn to the Japanese educational system to identify educational effectiveness enhancing factors. Simultaneously, a sense of educational crisis exists within Japan, which resulted into numerous education reforms. In this paper, we describe how quality in education has been ensured in Japan, what changes in the assurance of quality are brought forth by the most recent wave of reform measures as well as the reaction of scholars toward these measures. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Japan nationallicence Education reforms nationallicence Quality in education nationallicence Input nationallicence Process nationallicence Output nationallicence National standards nationallicence Self-review nationallicence External review nationallicence Assessment studies nationallicence Knipprath Heidi Centre for Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, Department for Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Dekenstraat 2, 3000, Leuven, Belgium aut Arimoto Masahiro Research Department for Primary and Secondary Education, National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, 6-5-22 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, 153-8681, Tokyo, Japan aut Educational Research for Policy and Practice Springer Netherlands 6/3(2007-10-01), 205-217 1570-2081 6:3<205 2007 6 10671 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-007-9019-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-007-9019-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Knipprath Heidi Centre for Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, Department for Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Dekenstraat 2, 3000, Leuven, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Arimoto Masahiro Research Department for Primary and Secondary Education, National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, 6-5-22 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, 153-8681, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Research for Policy and Practice Springer Netherlands 6/3(2007-10-01), 205-217 1570-2081 6:3<205 2007 6 10671 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer