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5. Mark Peterson

More on testing problems

In my last column I wrote about the college entry exam. I criticized the movement in the US and Korea to rely too much on the test for admission to college. I argued that “bubble sheet” exams, “multiple choice” exams, were not as good a measure of student competence as so-called essay exams.

2016-07-12 16:24

Testing problem

The United States and Korea both suffer from the malady within education of too much testing, relying on the test, and test-centered curriculum. As bad as the situation has become in the U.S., it’s much worse in Korea. The educational product is better in Korea; Korean students have a much higher graduation rate (from both high school and college), and Korean students who come to the U.S. have high standing among their peers in American schools. But still there are some drawbacks to the school system in Korea that is so heavily centered on the exam.

2016-07-05 16:57

About history textbooks

I don’t know quite what is wrong with Korea’s teaching of history, but from my perspective, there is something wrong. I am not referring to the recent controversy about producing government-written, single textbook. I am not referring to the way Japan treats Korea in their textbooks. But the issue that I know most about - my own research - might be a way of looking into the whole history textbook controversy and the issue of teaching history to see what is wrong with it all.

2016-02-18 16:45

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