대학수학능력시험과 국제 바칼로레아(International Baccalaureate) 시험의 영어 읽기 지문 난이도 비교

Abstract

This study compared reading passages of the two tests used for college admissions decisions: the Korean College Scholastic Aptitude Test (KCSAT) and the International Baccalaureate (IB) test. The reading passages of the two tests were compared in terms of length, syntactic complexity, lexical diversity, readability, and topics. The analysis showed that the passages in the KCSAT were shorter in length but were syntactically more complicated and lexically more diverse than those in the IB test. Consequently, the reading passages in the KCSAT were found to require a higher reading ability than the IB test. These findings that the KCSAT required a higher reading ability than the IB challenged the legitimacy of the difficulty level of the KCSAT, given the fact that English is used as the medium of instruction in IB. Some suggestions for the future directions of the KCSAT are provided based on the research findings.