A Study on Mathematics Course Instruction for Foreign Students Technical Colleges

日本的技术学院每年接收大约90名来自国外的转学生，并允许他们进入三年级。他们以前的学校课程在质量和数量上都因国家而异。我们需要了解他们以前的学习环境，以便在日本的技术学院为他们提供有效的教育。本研究的目的是了解东南亚国家希望在日本技术大学学习的申请人的实际情况，以及他们在他们的国家学习什么和如何学习高中数学。我们发出了关于这些问题的调查问卷，并分析了他们的回答。此外，我们还访问了各国的高中和大学，听取了教育部和驻这些国家大使馆有关人士的意见。详细分析见我们的报告。本研究的主要内容如下：1）针对在日本的技术大学留学生，通过对留学生以往学习环境的调查，为留学生选择专业提供了充分的信息，并对留学生在新学校的生活和专业班级情况进行了问卷调查，然后进行了分析。2）对越南、柬埔寨、印度尼西亚的高中数学教科书内容进行了研究，并与日本教科书进行了比较，完成了《高中数学教科书分析与评论》。我们访问了文部省、各国大使馆、JICA办事处，听取了有关人士对教育行政、教育政策的意见，以及为提高科学和数学教育水平而进行的教育改革的实际情况。我们把它们整理成疑点。

Technical colleges in Japan receive about 90 transfer students from abroad each year and give them admission for third grade. Their former school curricula in terms of both quality and quantity vary from country to country they are from. We needed to know their former learning environment in order to provide them with effective education at technical colleges in Japan. Our aim of this research/study is to know the actual condition of the applicants in the Southeast Asian countries who hope to study at technical colleges in Japan, and what and how they study in high school mathematics in their countries. We sent out questionnaires concerning these, and analyzed their responses. Also, we made a visitation to high schools and colleges in various countries, and heard the views of relevant people in the Education Ministry and embassies in those countries. Its detailed analysis is shown in our report. The summary of it is as follows:]1) Concerning foreign students at technical colleges in Japan, we inquired their former study environment, provided them with enough information for deciding their major, gave some questionnaires on the life at their new colleges and the classes of their major, and then, made an analysis on them.2) We studied the contents of the textbooks of high school mathematics in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Indonesia, and made a comparison with Japanese textbooks to complete "The Analysis and Comments on the Textbooks of High School Mathematics".3) We visited high schools and colleges in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Thailand, and conducted a research on the students' learning environments. We visited the Education Ministry, the embassies in various countries, and the offices of JICA to hear the views of relevant people about educational administration, educational policy, and furthermore, the actual situation of their educational reform to enhance the standard of the education of science and mathematics. We organized them as the questionable points.