Rubrics and Schoolwide Approach to the Character Education and Some Implications to AI-Based Character Education

Abstract

Purpose: The Character Education Promotion Act was introduced in Korea, and after that many kinds of high qualified school character education programs have been made in Korea. Then now, it is time to pay attention to research for effective program implementation. The purpose of this article is reviewing former developed tools for evaluation for character education in wide range, and suggesting some ideas of the rubrics and schoolwide approach to the character education. Method: This article give efforts to develop some suggestions of a rubric for effective character education implementation by analyzing prior researches. To extract the rubric, this article reviewed CASEL’s Implementing Rubrics, GTO Accountability Questions, and Character Education Framework Guidance in UK. In using this comparative research method, this article extracts the core ideas of each rubrics and synthesizes the main frame of the rubrics to develop rubrics model. Results: The three former developed rubrics has each steps of questions. And they are composed on the basis of schoolwide approach and help teacher or practitioner check what he/she to do and concern easily. In order for a program to be effective, schools should take all stakeholders in school into account, make a democratic atmosphere, and divide roles appropriately. The extracted rubric can guide the implementation process will not only reduce teachers' burn-outs but also enhance the effectiveness of the program, by making it easier to implement. Conclusion: If the implementation of an effective program performed in a low quality way, it rather cause negative impact on program effects. In the same context, It is important to take into account how reduce teacher’s burden. And it need also provide effective character education program cases and information on supporting organization. As Korean society gradually shifts to the AI-based society, decisions on school policy will also be made based on data. For this, it is essential to establish procedures for how data is used.