A study for evaluation of liberal arts education

Lim, Young-Kyu; Bae, Eun-Suk; Lee, Myung-Suk

Korean Journal of General Education 2019;13(1):117-140.
Published online February 28, 2019.

Young-Kyu Lim, Eun-Suk Bae, Myung-Suk Lee

교양교육과정 평가 연구

임영규, 배은숙, 이명숙

Abstract

This study, we aimed to investigate the impact of input for the estimate of liberal arts education on the process for the estimate of liberal arts education and the output for the estimate of liberal arts education in survey. The analysis data in this study are collected by electronic questionnaire using the web serve of the Korean Social Science Data Center in October, 2015, 2016, 2017. The exploratory factor analysis, reliability test, Multiple-Regression of path analysis of SPSSWIN were applied to analyze the data. The results were as follows: First, we have confirmed that there is no problem in the concept validity and reliability of the measurement tools used in this study. Second, we found that the overall evaluation of the liberal arts education was more positive or highly evaluated by the professor than by the students. Third, we found that three parts of input, process, and output for the estimate of liberal arts education had a proportional causal relationship. As a result, We have confirmed that the higher the inputs to liberal education, the higher the process, and the higher the input and process of liberal education, the higher the output of liberal arts education.

Key Words: liberal arts education, input, process, output