1. Differentiated Instruction in Korea
Young-Eun Kim

2. How to Connect Teaching and Assessment
Curriculum
How does teaching reflect
the result of student assessment?
How is assessment embedded in teaching?
Teaching
Assessment

3. Curriculum Differentiation in Korea
Purpose
Responding to various students’ needs and abilities
Individualization, differentiation, and diversification of contents, instructional strategies, class structure, and assessment
Student-centered curriculum and instruction

4. Its’ history in Korea
As one of Curriculum Differentiation
Teaching by Level (Differentiated Instruction)
Since the 7th National Curriculum (1997)
Officially emphasized through the 2007 Revised Curriculum(2007)
Recommendation by the 2009 Revised Curriculum(2009)
by the act “High School Improvement and School Structure Reforms”( , MoE)
The policy of school curriculum specialization and diversification (

5. by the act “High School Improvement and School Structure Reforms”(2007
by the act “High School Improvement and School Structure Reforms”( , MoE)
- demanding full enforcement of Differentiated Instruction at
all general high schools since 2008
- Excellence
- +1 type
- 2 subjects more per grade
- financial support, develop teaching materials, and teacher
training

6. The policy of school curriculum specialization and diversification
- Extending “Teaching by Level” to all high schools
- Math, English of more than 3 levels
- full financial support from offices of School District
- After school programs

7. From the 2007 Revised Curriculum
Teaching by Level > Curriculum Differentiation
Advanced, Basic, Supplementary
Korean, Social Studies, Math, Science, English
Supplementary teaching
Reliable and valid assessments : Criterion for grouping students
Differentiated assessment for each level

8. Assessment in Differentiated Teaching
Instructional > Selection
Identical (common) contents with different levels ???
Rule: “teaching by level but equal assessment”
4 types of assessment in differentiated teaching
- differentiated assessment
- common assessment + differentiated assessment
- regular assessment + performance assessment
- criterion-referenced assessment
Jin et al. (2009) “Research on student assessment along with differentiated instruction – based on the subjects of math and English, KICE

9. Example of item in the mid-term
points
levels
Jin et al. (2009)

10. “Currently Stabilized”
Secondary schools doing differentiated instruction in both math and English
Middle schools in Seoul : 98.9% (2008)
“Currently Stabilized”
Jin et al. (2009, p.21)

11. Keeping the class number
How to Group Students
Keeping the class number
2 classes → 2 levels
3 classes → 3 levels
+ 1 strategy
2 classes → 3 levels
3 classes → 4 levels
Demand additional instructors
Within-class strategy

12. How many students in one class?
Nation-wide
Seoul K E M H
Student number in class
19.7
22.8
30.5
30.9
21.9
24.3
30.2
Students per one teacher
13.4
14.9
15.2
13.7
15.4
15.6
14.0
Retrieved from www. moe.go.kr (ministry of education, educational statistics) in May, 2015

13. A Case from a Middle School - Plan for Mathematics
1st, 2nd, 3rd grade, from March to the end of the grade
2+1 strategy, 2 classes for 3 levels
Based on the prior student achievement, regroup them each semester
Every 4 hours per week
Advanced: application, critical and logical demonstration
Basic: Understanding and math pride
Supplementary: Basic math ability
“school curriculum”

14. Grouping 3rd 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Class Gauss Euclid Thales G E T teacher Lim
Min Oh
No. 32 22 12 20

15. Different teaching strategies (achievement levels)
Gauss
Euclid
Thales 3
Number Operation 4
Equation 5 6
Function 7

16. A Case from a Middle School - Plan for English
1st, 3rd grade, from March through the end of school year
1st grade: once per week among 4 hours of English per week, Within-Class strategy, 2 levels
3rd grade: every 4 hours of English per week,
2+1 strategy, 3 levels

17. Grouping strategy 7th 1 2 3 4 5 class Austen Hemingway A H T Kim Ma
Kim J.
No. 20 10 19
9th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Class
Austen
Dickens
Hemingway A D H T
No. 30 23 12 22 24 25

18. Distribution of teaching and assessment materials
(Academic support for the basic by KICE)

19. www.serii.re.kr (Seoul Education & Research Information Institute)
text

20. Teaching and Learning Center by KICE www.classroom.re.kr

21. Assessment in teaching
supplementary
Quadratic equation
basic

22. Assessment in teaching
Formative assessment
Assessment for Learning
Assessment
related to teaching
assessment
Performance assessment
Assessment
in the real context
Assessment for student growth
achievement standards-based assessment

23. Feedbacks for teaching and learning
Teaching & learning
assessment
feedback
What to improve?
What to assess?
What to achieve?
achievement standards-based assessment

24. A program for analysis of test results
Analysis of student achievement and feedbacks
Understanding of their achievement and self-directed learning
Improvement of teaching and tailored instruction

25. What to analyze
Review and improve T & L

26. Q & A
Thank you so much!