Teacher qualification tests at the Ministry of Education (abbreviated as bunken) were qualification tests to give the teacher status for middle schools or schools for teacher training, and were conducted for sixty-three years between 1885 and 1948.
文部省教員検定試験（文検）とは、中学校・師範学校の教員の資格を与える検定試験であり、明治18年（1885年）から昭和23年（1948年）までの63年間に亘り施行された。