Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

KEDI Survey Research on Student Competencies: The Development and Validation of Instruments

Recently, many countries around the world put policy efforts to raise competent individuals in various aspects for having national competitiveness in coming future societies. Meeting this global trend, Korean government made an official announcement of 2015 National Reformed Curriculum this year which is based on student competencies. Now, instead of measuring academic achievement-oriented outcomes, there is a need for a plan to be drawn to measure competency-oriented outcomes which are necessary to survive in the future societies. In accordance with such need, the purpose of this research is 1) to develop theoretical frameworks about concept and indicator system of student competencies and 2) to develop research instruments to measure competency level of elementary, middle, and highschool students as well as to collect all sorts of factors that influence their competency level. The developed questionnaires from the basic study of this year will be used for the KEDI student competency research that is scheduled from 2016 to 2020. The obtained results are expected to be utilized on the basic studies and policy researches for improving the education of Korea.