Paper short abstract:

A pilot study was conducted in July 2022 at a voluntary evening middle school in City A using a revised version of the 1948 literacy survey questions, based on the content of the 1948 survey questions. Here we present an overview of the survey, the results of the analysis, and future prospects.

Paper long abstract:

1. Introduction - Summary of Pilot Survey

　The presenter first prepared questions from 2019 to 2021, based on the content of the 1948 questions (structure and content of the 90 questions), but with additions and corrections made to the wording for modern use. Using the questions, a pilot survey was conducted in July 2022 with 43 people (28 students and 15 staff) ranging from their teens to their 80s at a voluntary nighttime junior high school in City A. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the problem, a summary of the results of the analysis of the pilot survey, and the challenges and prospects for the future development of the problem.

2. Summary of Questions, Scoring, and Results

2.1. Questions: The main questions were divided into questions 1-8, with a total of 90 questions. For the "Listen and Write" questions, the CD created for the pilot survey was used, since these questions require the participants to listen to the audio and write their answers.

2.2. Scoring: 1 point per question, 90 points maximum. Scoring was based on the correct answers and scoring rubric for the 1948 questions, including the handwritten kana and kanji questions (questions 1, 2, and 5).

2.3. Overall results

Collaborators Number of Collaborators/ Mean/ Median/ Min/ Max/

Students 25 / 78.4 / 83 / 28 / 89 /

Staff and others 18 / 87.8 / 88 / 80 / 90 /

3. Prospects for Developing Literacy Survey Questions to Support a Symbiotic Society

　When reconstructing and implementing literacy surveys that have been conducted since the Literacy Survey conducted in 1948, it is necessary to devise a method that meets the needs of the modern age. Assuming that there will be Japanese language users from diverse backgrounds (mother tongue/first or second language/inherited language/foreign language, etc.) among the survey participants, various considerations will be essential. For example, it will be necessary to consider the creation of questions at the A1 level, the lowest of the six levels of the CEFR, and at the lower, tentatively set A0 level, and to devise a structure for the questions.