The study analysed the items of the quantitative evaluations of the structural reform of 129 junior colleges such as educational circumstances, management of college academic affairs and financial support for students The descriptive statistics and th...
The study analysed the items of the quantitative evaluations of the structural reform of 129 junior colleges such as educational circumstances, management of college academic affairs and financial support for students The descriptive statistics and the analysis of frequency were conducted through SPSS 20, on the basis of the data produced and scores, classifying the colleges according to 42 colleges in capital region and 87 ones in non-capital ones.
The results of the study showed that the average and standard deviation of ten indices of the colleges summed up were each 45.8 and 1.97, and 18 colleges (14%) out of 129 showed below average. The curve of the score distribution also showed a sharp point tending to a decline towards right, while colleges were similar to one another in employment rate for full-time instructors, security of school buildings, rate of lectures of full-time instructors, appropriate scale of lectures, enrollment of newly entered students, employment rate of graduates.
The rate of return for school tuition was higher in colleges in non-capital region (5.7) than those of capital regions (5.3) while payment of part-time lecturers in capital regions (1.0) was higher than in non-capital ones (0.9). Also rates of scholarships in non-capital colleges (4.5) were 0.3% higher than colleges in capital regions (4.2). The recruit for the students who left the school showed 4.8 in all five regions except for Gangweon district (4.6).
Those colleges below average in total scores were groups of colleges of Art. With these colleges excepted, the quantitative indices lose the distinction among colleges, necessitating the review of the value and importance of the items for structural revision. On the basis of the results of this analysis, some implications and limitations of the evaluation of the structural reform of the junior colleges were presented.