Title A Research on Educational Resource for Preparing Outcome-Based Evaluation and Architectural Accreditation Conditions in Korea - Focused on Human, Physical, Information Resource -
Authors Lee, Jin-Hyuk
Page pp.127-137
ISSN 12269093
Keywords KAAB ; Accreditation Conditions & Procedures ; Quantitative Criteria ; Outcome-Based Evaluation ; Accredited Architectural Program
Abstract Recently, the KAAB held a public hearing for newly revised Accreditation Conditions of which any quantitative criteria are excluded. Thus, the purpose of this study is to provide accredited program's major quantitative data as reference material for the programs which plan to apply for initial accreditation and continuous accreditation. To provide the data, Architectural Program Report(APR) and Annual Report(AR) of 39 5 year accredited programs are reviewed and analyzed. The results of study are as follows; the ratio of students per one full-time professor was approximately 25.8, average design studio size per student was 5.0㎡, 34 out of 39 programs had a library within the department and had average of 12,400 titles of architectural books with different codes in university main library, total credit hours of design studio class were about 50, studio critique hours per student were 60minutes in average per week in each semester. Total required credit hours for graduation in average was 165.4. In order to meet the Student Performance Criteria which is composed of 37 criteria in 5 categories, curriculums are composed of 50 credits for Design, 5 credits for Communication, 20 credits for Cultural Context, 22 credits for Technical Area and 7 credits for Professional Practice in average.