The number of members actually involved in teaching was very small. Some simply posted their names and didn't do any practical editing. These factors caused the process to become too arbitrary. Now the MoE has fixed terms at three to six years, and increased the number of actual teachers to nearly one-third.
歐用生指出，到去年為止，編譯館的編輯委員都還沒有任期制，實際參與教學的教師名額也很少，有些編輯委員甚至只有掛名，並不實際負責編務，這都使得編輯或修訂的過程有流於草率之嫌，因而影響品質。