The Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee urged for a departure from a simple pro-con debate surrounding the written and essay-type evaluations, emphasizing the need for concrete preparation and validation to connect teaching, evaluation, and feedback.
In a recent commentary on educational policies, the Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee stated, "It is not about immediately transitioning the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) into a large-scale written and essay-type exam," and emphasized that "if it is an evaluation method necessary for future education, it should undergo sufficient research, experimentation, and validation processes."
As the National Education Commission discusses future entrance examination systems, debates within the education sector continue regarding the fairness of grading, the expansion of private education, and the workload of teachers, especially with the possibility of transitioning the CSAT to an absolute evaluation system and introducing written and essay-type questions.
Following the commentary, the Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee further elaborated on the related discussions through a YouTube broadcast titled 'Beyond Pro-Con Debate on Written and Essay-Type Evaluations: How to Prepare.'
During the broadcast, Kwon Hyuk-seon, the head of the Korean Association of Secondary School Teachers and a member of the Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee, discussed the limitations of objective-centered evaluations, the relationship between evaluation and teaching, the transition to absolute evaluation in high school internal grades, the feasibility of introducing written and essay-type questions in the CSAT, fairness in grading, and collaboration between humans and AI in evaluation.
The broadcast highlighted that it is challenging to innovate teaching without changing the evaluation system. To foster students' critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and logical expression abilities, evaluations should move away from merely confirming correct answers to examining the process and reasoning behind students' responses.
It was also emphasized that the implementation of written and essay-type evaluations should not be pursued in a way that simply requires longer answers or increases the grading workload for teachers. Question-centered teaching, concept-based learning, feedback, and correction should go hand in hand, necessitating a support system for teachers through collaborative question setting, grading, and the development of subject-specific evaluation materials.
The transition to absolute evaluation in high school internal grades was also presented as a task that needs to be discussed. While high school internal grades were restructured from a 9-grade system to a 5-grade system starting from the 2025 academic year, most subjects still calculate both achievement levels and rank grades.
It was pointed out that if the results of written and essay-type evaluations are used to line up students based on minor score differences, the purpose of evaluating to diagnose students' achievement levels and address their shortcomings could be compromised.
The article also mentioned the importance of distinguishing between school evaluations and the CSAT. The fact that a school conducts written and essay-type evaluations does not directly mean that it can be immediately applied to the CSAT.
Given that the CSAT is a high-stakes exam taken simultaneously by test-takers nationwide and directly influencing university admissions, aspects such as inter-rater reliability, grading period, appeals and re-evaluation, regional and socio-economic fairness, and the testing environment for students with disabilities should be overseen by the government.
The Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee stated that there is no need to change all CSAT questions to lengthy essays from the beginning. Instead, they suggested developing various evaluation models such as short written responses, data interpretation, and argumentative types, validating them gradually through national mock exams and experiments, and then deciding on their adoption and proportion.
Regarding AI grading, it was proposed to research a 'human-AI collaborative grading' system rather than 'AI-only grading.' In this system, AI categorizes answers and assists in grading, but final judgments involve human graders. If there is a significant difference in scores between humans and AI or human graders, a third grader reassesses the answers.
The committee stressed the need for a comprehensive evaluation system that includes random sample re-evaluation, group bias analysis, grading history management, student appeals and re-examination procedures.
They argued that in line with the declining school-age population, the evaluation system centered on relative evaluation should also be reconsidered. In regions with a small student population like rural areas and small schools, the advantages and disadvantages of internal grade rankings can vary based on the number of enrolled students. Therefore, the focus should be on evaluating whether students have actually acquired the knowledge and skills required in the curriculum rather than just lining them up based on their performance.
The Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee proposed seven directions for evaluation innovation, including integrating teaching, evaluation, and feedback, developing a roadmap for transitioning to absolute evaluation in high school internal grades, conducting empirical research on the CSAT written and essay-type evaluation model, researching human-AI collaborative grading, establishing an independent grading reliability verification system, comprehensive revision of entrance examination systems, and establishing evaluation principles that schools can prepare for through teaching alone.
They also demanded that the Jeonbuk Provincial Office of Education not wait for the national-level confirmation of entrance examination systems but instead engage in preparations tailored to the local context.
Specifically, they suggested developing a Jeonbuk-style evaluation model that focuses on short written responses, data interpretation, and argumentative evaluations centered around desired schools and teachers. They emphasized the need to ensure sufficient time for collaborative question setting and grading, and to promote human-AI collaborative grading research involving universities, research institutions, and teachers in the field. They also added that continuous monitoring is necessary to ensure that rural areas, small schools, and students with disabilities are not disadvantaged by the new evaluation methods and to investigate the ongoing increase in regional and socio-economic disparities in private education.
The Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee concluded by stating that while written and essay-type evaluations are not a panacea for the future of education, sticking to a multiple-choice-centered evaluation due to existing issues is also not valid. They emphasized that preparing for education in 2033 in 2032 is already late, and the Jeonbuk Provincial Office of Education should collaborate with schools, conduct research, experiment, and gradually validate the changes from now on.
📝 Summary:
The Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee is advocating for a shift away from simple pro-con debates about written and essay-type evaluations in education. They stress the importance of thorough preparation and validation to better connect teaching, evaluation, and feedback.
🗣️ Korean Translation:
전북 교육연합위원회는 교육에서 서술형 평가와 에세이형 평가에 대한 단순한 찬반 논쟁에서 벗어나야 한다고 촉구하고, 교수, 평가, 피드백을 연결하기 위한 철저한 준비와 검증의 필요성을 강조했습니다.
❓ Comprehension Questions:
1. What is the Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee urging for in regards to evaluations?
전북 교육연합위원회가 평가에 관해 무엇을 촉구하고 있나요?
2. What are some of the topics being debated within the education sector regarding evaluations?
평가에 관한 교육부문의 논쟁 주제는 무엇인가요?
3. How does the Jeonbuk Regional Joint Education Committee propose to innovate the evaluation system?
전북 교육연합위원회는 어떻게 평가 시스템을 혁신하려고 제안하고 있나요?
💡 Vocabulary Learning:
1. validation / 검증 / noun
- The act of confirming or verifying something.
- 항목을 확인하거나 검증하는 행위입니다.
- The validation of the experiment results was crucial for the study.
- 연구를 위해 실험 결과를 검증하는 것이 중요했습니다.
2. fairness / 공정함 / noun
- The quality of treating people equally or in a just manner.
- 사람들을 동등하게 대우하거나 공정하게 대우하는 품질입니다.
- The teacher ensured fairness by grading all students' work objectively.
- 선생님은 모든 학생들의 작업을 객관적으로 평가하여 공정함을 보장했습니다.
3. collaboration / 협력 / noun
- The action of working together with someone to produce something.
- 무언가를 만들기 위해 누군가와 협력하는 행위입니다.
- The project's success was due to the excellent collaboration between team members.
- 프로젝트의 성공은 팀원들 간의 훌륭한 협력 덕분이었습니다.
4. transition / 전환 / noun
- The process of changing from one state or condition to another.
- 한 상태나 조건에서 다른 상태나 조건으로 변화하는 과정입니다.
- The company is currently undergoing a transition to a more sustainable business model.
- 회사는 현재 더 지속 가능한 비즈니스 모델로의 전환을 진행 중입니다.
5. emphasize / 강조하다 / verb
- To give special importance or attention to something.
- 특별한 중요성이나 주의를 두다.
- The teacher emphasized the importance of studying regularly for good grades.
- 선생님은 좋은 성적을 얻기 위해 꾸준히 공부하는 것의 중요성을 강조했습니다.
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