The Effect of Innovation School on Middle School Students’ Academic Achievement : Using Propensity Score Matching and Quantile Regression

Choi, Yeseul; Lee, Sora

doi:10.22553/keas.2020.38.3.31

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“…The effects of policy implementation appearing differently by subject are identified in the effects of innovative schools that emphasize the improvement of teaching and learning into learner-centered classes similarly to the free semester system. It was found that the effect of the learner-centered teaching method of the innovative school was significant only for the Korean language subject (Won and Eum, 2018), or the effects of the innovative school have significant differential effects only on the Korean language and students in the lower ranks (Choi and Lee, 2020) and were not significant on English and mathematics. However, thus far, studies have been conducted on the class operation method, evaluation, and program development due to the introduction of the free semester system by detailed subject, but studies on how the operation of the free semester system and its effects can be connected and appear are insufficient.…”

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Analysis of the effects of the free semester system on academic achievement and career maturity

Choi

Moonyoung

2022

Policy Futures in Education

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In this study, we examined the longitudinal effect of the free semester system on middle school students’ academic achievement and career maturity using the Korean Education Longitudinal Study data, cohort 2013. We performed Difference-in-Difference (DiD) method to analyze whether the free semester system has effects on academic achievement and career maturity using the model moderated by parental academic support. We furthermore utilized quantile DiD method to examine whether the effects of the free semester system differ across the distribution of academic achievement and career maturity. As a result, we first found the significant positive effect of the free semester system on middle school students’ academic achievement and career maturity. Second, we found that parental academic support mediated its effects on math performance. Third, our findings indicate that the free semester system improves students’ academic achievement and career maturity, especially among students who performed to the bottom of its distribution. Based on these findings, practical implications and future research are discussed.

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