아동ꞏ청소년 대상 한국어 능력 평가 개발 연구

A Study on the Development of Test of Proficiency in Korean for Children and Adolescent learners: Focused on the development of questions and application

This study aims to develop the question items of the test of proficiency in Korean for children and Adolescent learners. There is a lot of difficulty developing the evaluation with which children and adolescents’ Korean proficiency is accurately tested and examined. Particularly, when the test is administered in foreign countries whose social and cultural traits are different from Korea’s, the question items have to be developed considered with the learners’ linguistic and environmental characteristics. In this respect, This study was conducted as follows. First, three stages was repeated as development, review, and correction of test questions, and eventually the evaluation items was developed by section in two levels. Second, a simulation test was conducted with an area and a group of learners with representative characteristics. Third, through statistically analysis of collected data and the way of modification could be drawn. Based on it, this study could map out the improvements on test duration, question types, and difficulty level of the test of proficiency in Korean for the children and adolescent learners abroad. These findings will contribute to paving a ground for the principles and orientation of developing the questions for the test and lead to the stable development of the questions.