경찰대학과 사관학교 입학 영어시험의 교육과정 반영도 및 시험 유용성 검증

Verification of coherence with the national curriculum and test usefulness of the Korea National Police University and the Korea Military Academy’s English entrance exams

The purpose of this study is to investigate the components of the English entrance exams of the Korea Military Academy and the Korea National Police University in relation to the literature of the national curriculum and test usefulness. In this study, English entrance exam samples from 2017 to 2019 were selected. Their coherence with the national curriculum was examined, and their usefulness with regard to test methodology and test content based on Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) framework of test method facets was diagnosed. Then, lexical analysis borrowed from corpus linguistics was conducted. Finally, the exams were analyzed in terms of readability. The results show that the exams do not faithfully reflect the national curriculum and many qualities of test usefulness were revealed to not have been successfully applied. Also, the vocabulary and readability analysis showed that the two tests were not appropriate for Korean high school students. As a result, the two entrance exams proved problematic in terms of reliability, validity, authenticity and practicality. Suggestions are made on the basis of the results for the improvement of the tests.