Social perceptions of the achievement standards-based assessment in the media by text mining

The achievement standards-based assessment was introduced in 2011 as an assessment method to address the side effects of competitive educational environment. Recently, it has gained attention with the implementation of the high school credit system. This study aims to explore social perceptions of the achievement standards-based assessment and seek directions for its operation by conducting TF and TF-IDF analysis, and topic modeling on big data from news articles. First, “High school credit system” was identified as a key keyword explaining the achievement standards-based assessment. Second, the topic modeling results revealed six topics: “Government