Student CSAT Score Data Fully Provided to Researchers... Expansion of Education Data Accessibility

Ministry of Education Discusses Education Data Opening Plan
Data Provision Reduced from 70% to 10%
Scope Shift from Basic to Metropolitan Local Governments
Integrated Management System to Launch in August

The scope of educational data openness will be expanded, including the provision of 100% of individual student scores from the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) and the national-level academic achievement evaluation to researchers in a de-identified state.

On the 28th, the Ministry of Education held the 5th Social Relations Ministers' Meeting at the Government Seoul Office and announced that they discussed the 'Plan to Expand the Openness and Utilization of Educational Data.'

This plan was prepared to actively open educational data and increase its utilization.

The Ministry of Education plans to fully open educational data. Along with this, for the entire student data of CSAT and academic achievement, the data will be provided to researchers down to the basic local government level after three years have passed.

Until now, the Ministry of Education provided researchers with only 70% sample data, not 100% full data. Also, data was disclosed at the metropolitan government level, not at the basic local government level.

Lee Ju-ho, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Minister of Education, is making an announcement on the allocation of 2,000 medical school quotas on the 20th at the Joint Briefing Room of the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Photo by Jo Yong-jun jun21@

Accordingly, academic achievement evaluation and CSAT test score data from 2009 to 2020, based on the year the exam was taken, will be provided to researchers. The CSAT data provided to researchers includes each student's standard scores by subject area, percentile ranks of standard scores, grades, gender, province, and city/county/district.

By school, data includes the number of test takers per subject, average standard scores, and grade ratios by subject.

Academic achievement data will provide students' achievement levels (above average, basic, below basic), scale scores, grade, gender, province, and city/county/district.

Additionally, the Ministry of Education will build the 'Educational Administration Data Integrated Management System (EDISN),' which integrates and collects administrative data that had been managed in a decentralized manner by institutions, to support administrative efficiency and workload reduction. The system will be launched in August.

Along with this, an 'Educational Data Map' will be constructed and curation services will be provided. Furthermore, the EDSS (Data Request Platform) will be revamped and the scope of data provision expanded to strengthen evidence-based policy making.