| Competences, Satisfaction, and the Grade Point Average of the First-year College Students Influenced by Changes Made in the General Education System |
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Kyong-Mee Chung, Hyunjung Yang, Soo Youn Kim, Eun Jeong Kim, Hye Kyung Hong, Bong-Hwan Han |
| 교양교육시스템 변화에 따른 대학생의 역량, 만족도 및 성적의 변화 |
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정경미, 양현정, 김수연, 김은정, 홍혜경, 한봉환 |
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| Abstract |
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The current study investigated on the competence, satisfaction, and grade point average(GPA) of the first-year college students, influenced by changes made in the general education system. The study took place in a four-year university located in Seoul, Korea, from 2007 to 2015. Specifically, three periods were identified: a period before reinstation of department-based system and reorganization of general education(2007-2009), a period after such change occurred and before first implementation of residential college(RC) education(2010-2012), and a period after executing RC education(2013-2015). The results showed that first, competence and the GPA improved significantly across the periods while satisfaction increased only to the second period and decreased in the third period. Second, the interaction between the level of GPA and the periods of the general education system on the amount of self-reported competence and satisfaction had been investigated. Results showed that only the satisfaction has a significant interaction, which means that students with higher grades responded to be more satisfactory about their first year at school overall. However, the higher the grades were, the lower the rate of the decline was in the third period. Lastly, the interaction between the gender and the periods of the general education system on the amount of self-reported competence, satisfaction, and the GPA had been investigated. The results showed that all of the variables had significant interactions. The male students had significantly higher competence and satisfaction reported than the female students, while female students had significantly higher GPA across all periods. Meanwhile, the female students showed higher increase of competence and lower decline of satisfaction in the third period. As for the GPA, the male students showed improvements in the second period. Overall, the results indicate the effectiveness of the changes made in the general education system and suggest future directions. |
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RC 교육, general education, Residential College, college students, competence, GPA, satisfaction |
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