KEDI Journal of Educational Policy

This study investigates changes in profiles for students’ key competencies corresponding to the implementation of competency-based education in South Korea. Using the Korean Educational Longitudinal Survey 2013, a total of 6,131 Korean secondary students’ responses were analyzed. Our target sample i…

This article addresses questions raised at a recent academic discussion of action learning for business education: What are the pitfalls of existing action learning practices? How do educators mindfully and effectively develop action learning in business education? To examine these issues, we provid…

This study critically analyzes the Korean secondary vocational education system known as Meister high schools with activity theory. By focusing on the main subjects of Meister high school education—teachers and students—this qualitative case study examines how the Meister high school education is im…

This study identified the core competencies and the patterns of Korean high school students through Prototypical Profiles via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) and analyzed the correlation between the students’ core competencies and academic achievement. The data of 274 students in one typical high sc…

Graduates are exhorted to develop personal skills, qualities, and experiences that enable them to compete in the labor market (Moreau & Leathwood, 2006; McQuid & Lindsay, 2005). This graduate tracer study (GTS) creates an empirical portrait that describes the employment aspects of the graduates of a…