Abstract
This research investigates how teachers evaluate the School Comprehensive Evaluation administered by KEDI from 2000 to 2001. To provide basic data for improvement of the School Comprehensive Evaluation, the following six questions were asked: 1. What are the teachers' evaluations of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 2. What are the teachers' evaluations of the operation of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 3. What are the teachers' evaluations of the results of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 4. What are the teachers' evaluations of the effects of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 5. What are the teachers' opinions regarding the problems of the School Comprehensive Evaluation and solutions to them? 6. What are the teachers' evaluations of the open classrooms and evaluators? 360 questionnaires were distributed to teachers who had been working at the Busan and Ulsan Metropolitan City schools taken the School Comprehensive Evaluation, and 258 questionnaires were processed by a SPSS WIN. The followings are major findings of the study: 1. The teachers evaluated the School Comprehensive Evaluation to be more desirable compared to the usual School Evaluation. 2. They recognized the need for preliminary training with extended time about the School Comprehensive Evaluation. They evaluated that the procedure and area of the evaluation were quite valid. 3. They evaluated the evaluation reports were objective but not leading changes in the respective schools. 4. The School Comprehensive Evaluation did not much contributed to the improvement of the schools. 5. Stress from interview and class observation was the major problem to the teachers. 6. The teachers did prepare for their open classes, but highly evaluated the evaluator's professionalism.
