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Effect of the Brain Korea 21 Plus Project on Graduate's Performance and Satisfaction: Empirical data analysis for a social science department

BK21플러스 사업참여가 대학원생 역량과 만족도에 미치는 효과: 단일 사회과학 사업단의 경험적 자료 분석

  • Received : 2019.12.09
  • Accepted : 2020.01.03
  • Published : 2020.01.31
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Abstract

The Brain Korea 21 (i.e., BK21) is a state-led higher education funding project that started in 2013. Previous literature investigating the effectiveness of the project mainly focused on massive quantitative outcomes of funded teams, and many studies reporting only self-reported data of graduate students who participated in the project. Therefore, there were not many BK21 studies that thoroughly examined the graduate students' performance, ability, satisfaction, etc. This study aims to determine the effect of the BK21 project participation on graduate students' academic performance, using objective (the number of published papers), self-rating (graduates' satisfaction), and other-rating (advisor's performance evaluation) data, which were sampled from 2013 to 2019 from a single funded team on a one-departmental-unit. The results showed that the participating graduate students had more published papers, and had higher performance evaluation scores in research, and overall abilities, than the non-participating graduate students. Further, participating students were largely satisfied with BK21 supports. This study has significance in that it demonstrates the positive influence of the BK21 project on graduate students' academic performance and satisfaction by the thorough investigation of a single social science funded team.

BK21사업은 장기간 막대한 예산이 투입되는 국가주도의 고등교육사업이다. 사업의 효과성을 평가한 선행연구는 선정된 사업단(팀)들 전체를 대상으로 실적 중심의 양적 성과에 초점을 맞춘 경우가 많고, 사업에 참여한 대학원생에 관한 선행연구는 만족도 조사에 그친 경우가 많아 사업단별 혹은 학술 분야별로 BK21사업이 대학원생의 수행, 역량, 만족 등에 미치는 영향을 깊이 있게 다룬 연구는 많지 않았다. 본 연구는 3단계 BK21플러스 사업에 선정된 1개 학과 단위의 단일 사업단을 대상으로 2013년부터 2019년까지 수집된 대학원생 수행에 대한 정량 자료(예: 게재논문 수)와 제3자 평가 자료(예: 대학원생 수행평가) 그리고 설문 자료(예: 교육환경 만족도)를 활용해 BK21플러스 사업참여의 효과와 시간의 흐름에 따른 대학원생 역량 변화 정도를 조사하였다. 그 결과 사업에 참여한 학생이 미참여 학생보다 논문실적이 더 많았고, 연구능력과 전반적인 수행수준 평가에서 더 높은 점수를 받은 것으로 나타났다. 사업단의 교육, 연구, 국제화 인프라에 대한 대학원생의 만족도 역시 높은 것으로 나타나 BK21사업 수혜의 직간접적 긍정 효과를 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 단일 사회과학 사업단에 초점을 맞춰 BK21 교육지원사업의 효과를 다양한 자료를 활용해 검증함으로써 개별 사업단의 운영 성과에 대한 경험적인 평가를 시도하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

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