부산광역시 교사 관찰·추천에 의한 영재 선발방식의 개선방향

Abstract

This research, a case study of the Busan metropolitan city gifted screening practice deploying teachers' observations and nominations, compares it with the theoretical models for the gifted screening system in order to improve the city's current practice. Accordingly, this research analyzes the previous studies that proposed theoretical models or managerial strategies for gifted screening based on teachers' observations and nominations, and also investigates the evaluations of the city's gifted screening practice from the Office of Education and school teachers. Finally, it conducts a delphi questionary for three different groups'(university, Office of Education, and school) opinions on the structure of gifted screening process. As a result, it finds out that the theoretical models highlight 'long-term and continuous observations of students' and 'multi-level evaluations using a diversity of giftedness tests,' whereas the city's gifted screening practice emphasizes the 'reliability and objective evidences of evaluations' and 'managerial efficiency and convenience.' These two different perspectives also lead to selecting dissimilar structures of the gifted screening process based on teacher's observations and nominations. That is, the university group advocates the 'bottom-up' system of gifted screening because of its feasibility of the main purpose of the practice. In contrast, the Office of Education group prefers the 'top-down' system due to its managerial efficiency. In order to minimize the disparity between the theoretical models and the city's current practice of gifted screening, this research proposes a gradual transition of the system from the 'top-down' to the 'bottom-up' as the system expands with the number of qualified teachers for screening and improves its quality of teaching.