In 2009, the government administered the NAEA (National Assessment of Educational
Achievement) to all-inclusive students for the target grades from elementary to high school. Those
changes expanded the goals of academic achievement assessment from "providing information to
improve the curriculums and teaching-learning methods and controlling the quality of education"
to "diagnosing the academic achievement levels of individual students and checking the
accountability of school education.
The purposes of this study were to analyze the all-inclusive results of 2009 NAEA, examine the
academic achievement levels of the sixth, ninth, and tenth graders in five subjects (Korean, social
studies, math, science, and English), and provide their implications for policy making. To be more
specific, it would investigate the students' academic achievement levels according to school levels,
regional sizes, municipal and provincial educational agencies (or local educational agencies), and
subjects, offer descriptive information about the background variables with the responses of the
newly developed student and school questionnaires in 2009, and analyze relations between
academic achievement of each school level and student and school background variables.