교육과정 개정과 대입제도 개편에 따른 계열 간 교차지원 관련 언론 보도 텍스트 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of national curriculum reform and college admissions reform on the evolving nature of cross-disciplinary college applications and to identify the key issues associated with cross-disciplinary college applications through an analysis of news articles published by mainstream mass media outlets. For this purpose, a total of 2,371 news articles related to cross-disciplinary college applications published by mainstream mass media outlets from January 1, 1997, to Novermber 30, 2023, were collected using web scraping method, and keyword frequency analysis and Structural Topic Modeling (STM) were conducted. The main results of the study are as follows. First, over the course of 26 years, 7 topics related to cross-disciplinary college applications reported in news articles were extracted, including ‘Plans for the promotion of public education and reduction of private education expenses’, ‘Policies for supporting students with specialized talents’, ‘Early admissions procedures and support strategies’, ‘Trends of natural science students enrolling in liberal arts majors and the introduction of integrated CSAT’, ‘Avoidance of science and engineering majors and support policies’, ‘Application strategies based on admission types’, and ‘Trends of liberal arts students enrolling in natural science majors and advantages and disadvantages based on admission types and subjects’. Second, the appearance rate of topics and the major issues varied across different phases of the integrated education system. Lastly, based on the results of this study, implications regarding the issues and directions for improvement of support were derived.