Characteristics of Longitudinal Study Design Based on School Participation through Cooperation between Local Universities, Office of Education, and Schools: Case Study of Chungnam innovation school

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the characteristics of regional-level education longitudinal studies designed in the process of communication and cooperation between local universities, education offices, and schools, and to explore the role and function of future regional-level education longitudinal studies. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the university and the Office of Education went through the process of research design through cooperation, the process of design refinement through adjustments and experiment, and the process of complementing during research execution, respectively. The differences from the existing longitudinal studies based on the local education office are as follows. First, the existing educational longitudinal studies were designed to track individual students, focusing mainly on individual growth, while the Chungnam Innovation School longitudinal study was designed to see the unit of growth as a school and track unit schools. Second, while existing educational longitudinal studies investigated students' competencies in a self-report manner for the efficiency of the survey, Chungnam Innovation School's longitudinal studies were designed to evaluate students' competencies through performance-type tasks. Third, in the existing educational longitudinal study, schools were regarded as the subject or cooperator of the study, while in the Chungnam Innovation School longitudinal study, schools were regarded as producers or participants of data. Finally, it was discussed how communication and cooperation between local universities, education offices, and schools influenced the design and operation of a new type of educational longitudinal research.