Quality Assurance in Education through the Diploma Policy and President's Message - An Analysis Focused on Local Community

What Characterizes Education in Women’s Universities in Japan? An Analysis of Diploma Policies

“…This study excluded universities that focus on specific disciplines such as medicine and engineering; however, differences in the fields of study that women's and co-educational universities offer may have some impact on the results. Future comparisons should ensure similar faculty compositions or involve the same departments for more precise analyses (e.g., [17][18][19][20][21][22]). Also, there are co-educational universities with mostly female or male students, and co-educational universities that used to be women's universities.…”

“…This study adopted quantitative text analysis to examine characteristics of DPs. To expedite the analysis, this study used a cross-tabulation search engine based on the TF-IDF evaluation customized by Monolithic Design Co. Ltd. TF-IDF is a text mining method used to evaluate the importance of a certain term appearing in target documents and is effectively used to extract words that characterize documents (feature words) [22]. TF refers to the frequency of a word in documents; if the word occurs frequently in documents (high TF), it is considered important.…”

“…Sci. 2023, 13, x FOR PEER REVIEW 6 of 13 used to evaluate the importance of a certain term appearing in target documents and is effectively used to extract words that characterize documents (feature words) [22]. TF refers to the frequency of a word in documents; if the word occurs frequently in documents (high TF), it is considered important.…”

“…The analyses in the above studies all used KH Coder [21], extracted frequent words, and plotted co-occurrence networks. However, Ogashiwa et al [22] computed term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), which looks for characteristic terms based on importance rather than just frequency of occurrence in a document. Words with high TF-IDF scores were extracted from the DPs of departments with "community" in their names.…”