Comparison of Student EQ with Completed and Dropout Students in a Special Graduate Educational Program

Abstract

Hokkaido University provides the special graduate education program "Nitobe School" from 2015. The program adopts Student Emotional Quotient (SEQ) as a supportive system of the assessment of educational quality. We have reported the result of SEQ for the Japanese Nitobe School students who entered the program in academic year (AY) 2015 previously. This paper reports the results of SEQ for the Japanese students enrolled in AY 2016. We compared the score of AY 2016 students with AY 2015, and found the variation of score in AY 2016 is smaller than AY 2015. On the other hand, the SEQ score of students who dropped out Nitobe School showed a characteristic shape in AY 2016, compared with AY 2015. So, we classified the dropped out students into "withdrawals" and "ghost" and analyzed each group SEQ score to clarify the reason of dropout. The results of this analysis showed the "withdrawals" left the program because they could not stand up and overcome the initial phase of team-building, and the "ghost" acted a lot to advance teamworking but seem to be suffered from such effort. We found SEQ can be used to detect such hidden suffering students by analyzing the result of SEQ earlier.