Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

A Study for developing Student Competency Index

Student Competency is an emerging issue in the global society. 1997 OECD launched a DeSeCo(Definition and Selection of Competencies) project. OECD tried to define and select the key competencies needed in the future society. 2003 PISA introduced the assessment of the problem solving competency and ICT using ability of the students and planned to assess the cooperative problem solving competency in 2005. UNESCO also launched the learning metrics project as a Post-EFA project. UNESCO endeavored to assess the multi-faceted growth and development of the primary and secondary students. Student competency emerges also as a hot issue in the korean education. Many Korean scholars find the student competency as a key education goal in the future society. In this study, we tried to develope Student Competency Index(SCI) and evaluate the level of Korean students' competencies.