Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

OECD ESP Longitudinal Study of Skill Dynamics (Ⅲ): Feasibility Issues in the Korean Context

This research is the third-year research of the ‘OECD Education and Social Progress (ESP) Longitudinal Study of Skill Dynamics (2014-2016)’ conducted by KEDI in collaboration with OECD/CERI. The purposes of the OECD ESP three-year longitudinal study are to identify diverse variables influencing the process of developing skills and to analyze the socioeconomic results brought about by learning environments and abilities. To this end, the first-year (2014) and the second-year (2015) research developed a variety of measurement tools to measure variables such as ‘skills,’ ‘learning contexts’ and ‘social progress’ which can be used by OECD member countries through international joint efforts, and verified the validity and reliability of such tools in Korean context by conducting large-scale domestic preliminary survey. That is, to validate measurement tools which are being developed through joint efforts with OECD, the research conducted and analyzed the first preliminary survey in 2014 and the second preliminary survey in 2015. The third-year research in 2016 analyzed the three-year longitudinal data and the possibility of the implementation of the main survey to validate the OECD longitudinal design in Korea for preparing for the international longitudinal study that will be conducted in the OECD member countries.

The main research is to analyze the feasibility of implementing the plan for the main survey in Korea as suggested by the OECD, to perform statistical analysis on the longitudinal data collected for three years, and to build the basis for the large-scale international longitudinal study.