Differences in Core Competencies and Longitudinal Changes Among Undergraduate Students: A Case Study on K-CESA

June 30, 2021  |  Vol.7, No.6  |  PP. 73-83  | PDF

AUTHORS:

Jiyeon Yeon, Department of Lifelong Education, Soongsil University, South Korea

Yoon Suk Song, Performance Management Center, Baejae University, South Korea

KEYWORDS:

Core Competencies, Undergraduate Students, Differences in Core Competencies, Longitudinal Changes, K-CESA

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the results of K-CESA diagnosis of undergraduate students in order to verify the changes in core competencies by year and the difference in core competencies by students’ majors. To this end, the researchers analyzed the differences in students’ core competencies by department and trends by year by extracting the data from the students who participated in the K-CESA survey conducted by P University, a four-year university located in D City, in both 2019 and 2020. The results revealed that students’ global competency improved as compared to the first year in the second year examination, while the overall thinking and communication capacity decreased. In addition, while engineering departments were found to be superior to other departments in their ability to use resource information technology, leadership competency in interpersonal relations was low, and the global competency of social students was high. Based on the results, the impact of non-face-to-face classes due to COVID-19 on the core competencies of university students and the ways to improve the curriculum to close the gap in the level of core competencies by students’ majors were discussed.

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Citations:

APA:
Yeon, J., Song, Y. S. (2021). Differences in Core Competencies and Longitudinal Changes Among Undergraduate Students: A Case Study on K-CESA. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), FuCoS, 7(6), 73-83. doi: 10.47116/apjcri.2021.06.07

MLA:
Yeon, Jiyeon, et al. “Differences in Core Competencies and Longitudinal Changes Among Undergraduate Students: A Case Study on K-CESA.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange, ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), FuCoS, vol. 7, no. 6, 2021, pp. 73-83. APJCRI, http://fucos.or.kr/journal/APJCRI/Articles/v7n6/7.html.

IEEE:
[1] J. Yeon, Y. S. Song, “Differences in Core Competencies and Longitudinal Changes Among Undergraduate Students: A Case Study on K-CESA.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), FuCoS, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 73-83, June 2021.

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