Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Future Plans for the Improvement of College Admission System

The purpose of this study was to design a College Entrance System (CES) in accordance with the direction of future education predicted according to the changes in future society and to derive improvement of the current Entrance system accordingly. First, for this, the transition process of Korea's CES was analyzed and currnet status of it was diagnosed, second, the direction of future education was examined through according to the prospect of future society and implication of CES was analysed, third, the implication was derived by examining trends of reformation in UK, Japan, and China. Fourth, in order to perform cognitive analysis for CES 1) Trend Big Data Analysis and Newspaper Editorial Analysis related to CES, 2) Focus Group Interview and Semantic Network Analysis of stakeholders in CES, 3) analysis of In-depth Interview with professional groups in CES, 4) Survey of professionals were implemented. Fifth, the scenario of future CES was derived regarding the change of future society and educational system using the scenario method. Sixth, the results of this study were summarized and suggested middle and long-term improvement plans such as the basic principle, directions, prerequisites, factors of tracks and methods of tracks, time of tracks, governance etc. in order to link high school education-college entrance-college education originally.