우리나라 일반대학원 행정학과의 양적 방법론 교육과정 발전방안에 관한 연구

초록

Statistics is experiencing rapid growth, spurred mainly by the proliferation of rich data in government and industry. Given the importance of statistics, we review curricula in quantitative research methods currently offered in Korea’s Graduate School of Public Administration, and we propose a new course sequence with the argument that such sequence is beneficial for our students. Analysis shows that current curricula are not well in line with the guidelines offered by the American Statistical Association. Moreover, our curricula leave something to be desired in terms of rigor compared with other social sciences such as Economics and Psychology. We present three suggestions to improve the competitiveness of our graduating students and strengthen the theoretical and empirical foundation of public administration and policy research: introduction of mathematics and statistical software education, and heavy emphasis on the basics of statistics.

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