The changes of assessment at middle school level in Korea

摘要

Mathematics education in Korea is currently in a period of transition. The new national curriculum standard was released in 2009 and will be implemented by middle schools in 2013. Korean education has evolved from merely assessing students’ knowledge to figuring out their mathematical process using various assessment methods. The purpose of the national level assessment has been expanded to measure individual achievement. The assessment framework also has changed not only to focus on the content domain but to include the behavior domain as well. However, there were some difficulties in assessing the students’ solving process, including trying to implement various assessment methods in the classrooms. This paper aims to examine the development of assessment and to provide direction for the future application of assessment to the new Korean curriculum by analyzing middle school students’ assessment result at the national level and the class level in the changing era.