Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

OECD ESP Longitudinal Study of Skill Dynamics (Ⅱ): Validation of OECD Longitudinal Design in Korea

This research is the second-year research of the “OECD ESP Longitudinal Study” and the ultimate purpose of the three-year longitudinal study, including this year’s study, is as follows: first, to examine the various learning environment variables that contribute to the skills formation process; and second, to identify the dynamic relationship between the relevant variables by analyzing the socioeconomic results caused by learning environments and abilities, that is, the causal relationship of social progress.
Accordingly, the ultimate purpose of the three-year longitudinal study is to examine the longitudinal development trends in the changes of such causal relationship with the lapse of time. For this, this research will contribute to the construction of the base of the main survey of the international longitudinal study, which will be conducted in the future, by preparing the base for the joint international development of various tools for the measurement of various variables, such as “skill,” “learning environment,” and “social progress,” which can be jointly used with OECD member states, verifying the feasibility and reliability of the OECD measurement tools in Korea by carrying out large-scale domestic pre-survey (carried out in the first quarter of 2014), and by focusing on the verification of the possibility and feasibility of the implementation of the longitudinal study design, which was constructed in cooperation with OECD, in Korea.