지방대학 혁신역량 강화사업 선정 평가의 타당도 및 신뢰도 검토 연구

Abstract

NURI(New University for Regional Innovation) program is a government-funded one for local universities aimed at diversification and specialization, higher employment of local college graduates, a greater role of local universities as a center of regional innovation by strengthening organic ties within a region including local government, companies, and research institutes. The government will invest a total of 1,400 billion won in the NURI program for 5 years, which will last until 2008. Last year, 454 projects applied for the NURI program, and 112 of them were selected.This study aims to see if the evaluation results are credible by analyzing the evaluation scores gathered by the Korea Research Foundation. In particular, it focuses on two main research questions as follows: First, are the evaluation criteria and items appropriate? Second, is the evaluation result reliable? Multivariate analysis methods, such as factor analysis, analysis of variance, internal consistency test, and generalizability test were employed for data analysis.The results show that each evaluation component takes its own independent dimension, which is least connected, and relative contribution of each component to the selection of the project adequately reflects the ratio that is originally intended. That is, the qualitative scores by evaluators have a greater impact on their selection, which are followed by local review, and quantitative scores. There is a considerable overlap among the evaluation items of the qualitative component. While evaluation results are found to be reliable, evaluation items and number of evaluators need to be adjusted for midium-size projects.