Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Improvement of Data collection and Analysis related with Faculty in Korea

The purpose of this research is to analyze major policy issues related to university faculty members as well as to provide improvement measures on increasing efficiency on data collection and utilization of data on faculty members. This research specifically pays attention on the needs of establishing systematic collection and utilization of faculty member data that can effectively support policy practice and its evaluation.

The research is composed of four major categories including 1) analysis framework, 2) review on the current status of faculty member data, 3) analysis of major issues on current policies related to university faculty members, 4) improvement measures on the collection and utilization of university faculty member data. Firstly, the analysis framework of this research is composed based on the life cycle perspective of university faculty member (before and after faculty appointment) and related system and activity areas were analyzed. Also, current status and problems of collected data on university faculty members are pointed out to draw further improvement measures. Moreover, empirical analysis was conducted on major issues related to faculty members to check on validity of existing data. Lastly, the research suggests on the measures for improving various limitations of the university faculty data that were found during the process of analysis. Suggestions on data improvement may increase effectiveness of policy to assess and evaluate effectiveness of policy that are practiced.