서울대학교 保健大學院 博士課程 敎育프로그램의 評價的 硏究 = An Evaluative Study on Doctorate Program of School of Public Health, SNU

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The doctoral program of school of Public Health in Seoul National University was established in 1976 and about 100 students have graduated or completed the course.
Even though there have been several studies on evaluating the educational programs of the school, both master's and doctorate's since early 1980s, this study was carried out to identify needs of students, their performance and perceived achievements, unmet needs and barriers in achieving their educational goals only on doctoral graduates. The study was done by the students of doctoral program taking 'evaluative research in public health services' course as a practice under the direction of the teaching staff. Out of 91 eligibles 51 persons responded to the mail and/or telephone interview, and the results obtained are as followings:
1) The goal of the doctoral program of the Public Health, SNU that was to produce competent public health specialists furnished with full abilities of performong research, education and administration(service)has not been changed since 1976 as was set on the program establishment.
2) The objective of enrollment to the program stated by the subjecs varied considerably; majority of them(47%) for expanding scope of public health sceience, for advanced degree(39%), for contribution to the progress of public health sceience(20%), for better job(20%) and for pure academic interest(2%).
3) The needs of students by area of concern, for instance research, theaching and administration, each classified into several performance is viewed as the proportion accomplished out of needs, which are quantified by 5-point Likert scale, most of the graduates indicated that they have accomplished their needs in 83-92% for research abilities, 75-92% for teaching sbilities and 72-96% for administration abilities, the average performance being the highes in research.
5) The barriers that hindered their performance were the school facilities, such as library(72.5%), deficient funds for research(39.2%), insufficient students' room(33.3%) and deficient laboratory supplies(25.5%).
6) The barrier related to student's characteristics were insufficient study time for part-time student(56.9%), deficient study motivation(45.1%), tendency to take easy curriculum(29.4%) and addmittence of less qualificated students(19.6%).
7) The barrier related to professor's characteristics were deficiency of self-development endeavour(62.7%), lack of professor majoring in some particular fields of public health(39.2%), infrequent collaborative researches/activities with students (17.6%), and absolutely deficient number of professors that are necessary for the program(17.6%).
In general, however, the graduates appered to be satisfied in terms of what they have accomplished through the current educational program, which have been revised by the school from time to time to cope with the student's as well as community's demand.