Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

A Study on the Design of Teacher Longitudinal Survey

The current study, a first step to conduct a longitudinal survey of teachers at the national level in the future, commences with multiple goals: discerning key variables reflexive of the characteristics of teachers, devising a conceptual framework that represents the relationships between the identified variables, and developing an instrument ready for use in the actual longitudinal study. We also aim to investigate relevant aspects of research design and to recommend future directions. Thus, paying attention to scholarly discussions on teachers and their experiences, survey instrument development and research design, we employed various methods ranging from literature review to questionnaires to expert panels to Delphi survey techniques. The following thematically summarizes what we examined and what we primarily found.