• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.629-639
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• 2011

Currently science and technology are changing so fast and college mathematics becomes more and more important. But the downturn of freshmen's scholastic performance has been intensified and this phenomenon leads to serious problems in managing college curriculums. During the recent years at a middle level engineering college, many freshmen had a lot of difficulties in their mathematics courses. In consequence, many of them had hard time to survive at their major curriculums. In this point of view, we analyse the situation of mathematical scholastic ability among engineering majored freshmen through the research on the actual state of mathematical background, mathematical scholastic ability test, college mathematics scores, and scholastic aptitude test scores. We study the relation between the mathematics score of scholastic aptitude test for the college entrance and mathematical scholastic ability of freshmen of a middle level engineering college. From this study we conclude that the essential reasons for the above situations are the curriculum of middle school mathematics and the system of scholastic aptitude test and the entrance examination of university. In order for improving mathematical accomplishment. we give suggestions such as a learning ability improvement program in mathematics.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.287-307
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• 2016

In this study, mathematics exams for university entrance in the USA, the UK, Australia, Singapore, and Japan are investigated. We look into SAT, ACT and AP-course in the USA, GCE A-level test in the UK and Singapore, VCE in Australia, and UECE (University Entrance Center Exam) and individual university's admission tests in Japan. Those exams are analyzed in terms of exam system, mathematical contents, types of items, and testing time. Based on the result five issues on university entrance exam system in Korea are drawn out: types of tests, mathematical contents, item types, sub-items, and opening tests results to the public.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.335-352
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• 2015

In this paper, we selected 145 students from engineering college students who took P University's the Scholastic Level Assessment and registered the Basic Mathematics Class among the students who achieved 4th~7th grade in the mathematics B-type of the College Scholastic Ability Test. We compared and analyzed the correlation among the chosen students' grade for the College Scholastic Ability Test, test results of the Scholastic Level Assessment and mid-term test of the Basic Mathematics Subject, type of college entrance and actual condition survey of students in order to derive optimized teaching method for general mathematics subjects which can possibly increase the students' academic ability.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.1 s.21
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• pp.321-323
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 2004년 11월에 시행된 '2005학년도 대학수학능력시험 수리영역 가형' 의 문항을 분석하였다. 즉, 2-모수 문항 반응 모형에 근거한 베이지안(Bayesian) 1.0을 이용하여 문항의 난이도 및 변별도를 측정하였으며 고전검사이론 프로그램임 테스트안(Testan) 1.0을 이용하여 문항의 신뢰도 및 오답지 매력도를 구하였다. 이 결과는, 학생들이 어느 단원을 어려워하고 어떤 내용을 이해하지 못 하는지 그 원인을 찾을 수 있으므로, 교수-학습의 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.818-828
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• 2010

It has already been 17 years since the first implementation of the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). Having been administered so many CSAT tests including practice tests, criticisms have been made against CAST tests being stuck to the same pattern and focusing mainly on knowledge-based items. To address this issue, we analyzed the chemistry items of the Japanese National Center Test for University Admissions (NCTUA) administered in January of 2009 with regard to content factors, behavioral domains, item types, and noted any peculiarities in comparison to CSAT. Also, we estimated the predicted percentage of correct answers from the perspectives of Korean candidates to arrive at implications for chemistry items of CSAT.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.125-135
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• 1993

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.521-532
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• 2005

In the current College Scholastic Aptitude Test (CSAT), the standardized scoring system is being adopted to adjust te differences of degrees of difficulty between the optional subjects. But it becomes clear that the system has several weak points, some of which are considered to be very serious. In this paper we propose an alternative method, so-called the additive scoring system. It determines the additional points per each subjects, according to the subject mean scores. The proposed method has been simulated using the data of 2005' CSAT, and it turns out that the additive scoring system reduces or remove the troubles caused by the standardized scoring system.

• 대학교육
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• s.76
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• pp.64-74
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• 1995

최근 새로운 교육개혁안이 확정 발표되면서부터 새삼 대입전형의 준거로 대학수학능력시험의 비중이 증대되고 있다. 우리의 수능시험과 유사한 SAT나 ACT는 미국의 각 대학에서 신입생 선발을 할 때, 중요한 전형자료의 하나로 사용하는 검사이다. 이 두 검사는 대등한 정도로 널리 이용되고 있으나 그 교육철학적인 배경은 상이하며, 또 후자는 우리에게 별로 알려져 있지 못한 실정이다. 따라서 여기에서는 ACT의 평가내용, 검사개발과정, 결과활용 등을 소개하고 우리의 대학수학능력시험과 관련하여 그 시사점을 논의하였다.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.33-48
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• 1996

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.263-279
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• 1993