A political approach of Korea's standardized test result public release policy

KEDI Journal of Educational Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-119

  Kim, Kyu Tae ^a   Joo, Young Hyeo ^a   Kim, Su Yun ^a   Park, Kyun Yeal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Educational policy; Micro politics; Standardized test policy; Test result public release; Test based accountability

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649104280     PISSN: 17394341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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