Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

OECD AHELO Project in Korea (Ⅳ)

OECD AHELO project aims to initiate internationally comparable assessment of higher education learning outcomes, thereby providing empirical data on the quality of teaching and learning in higher education institutions(HEIs) and its relevance to the labour market and the society. This project differs from any other existing assessments for its objectives, contents and methodologies. Since 2008, OECD has carried out the AHELO feasibility study in order to examine the technical and practical feasibility of the AHELO project for international comparison. Korean government has joined the project at the early stage and appointed the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) as the National Center in 2008 December. Since then, the AHELO National Team within KEDI has carried out five-year research of the AHELO Feasibility Study. Throughout the five-year research from 2009 to 2013, the project aims to support the AHELO feasibility study including instrument development and assessment implementation and analyzing the results of the feasibility study.

In 2012, the fourth phase of research mainly focuses on full implementation of the assessment. It includes recruiting and training institutional coordinators from each participating HEI, sampling, mobilizing sampled students and faculty, preparing the field test and survey, and collecting data. In light of these, this year's study aims to analyse the result of assessment implementation, and to examine issues and challenges arising from the implementation.