2018 年 18 巻 2 号 p. 11-23
This paper reviews the school evaluation system in Korea to identify the system’s characteristics and problems for provision of a new direction. The jurisdiction on schools is prescribed by law and the school evaluation is a part of administrative affairs. Accordingly, school evaluations over elementary and secondary schools are controlled by the 17 local autonomous entities and higher educational institutions overseen by the central government (Ministry of Education). In the case of elementary and secondary schools, the evaluations are further diversified depending on the elected local superintendent. Recently, external evaluation has mostly disappeared as it was replaced by internal evaluation and follow-up consultation that was suggested as alternatives to improve the educational quality. Although quantitative evaluation as prescribed by law is mainly used in the evaluation process, qualitative evaluation is what actually determines the results, and typical perspective has been transformed from “positivistic” to “constructivist” paradigm. In this process, there has been an emerging issue on the accountability of school education. To review those matters, this paper considered first, the relationship between school evaluation system and the local governments, and summarized periodical transition process of evaluation system. And finally a comparative analysis was conducted to study the managing status of school evaluation in each local government body by studying the 16 MPOEs except one, the newly opened Sejong Office of Education.
