국제한국언어문화학회

This study aimed to examine the Korean History items of the TOTKA (Test of Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language), determine whether they met the test's objectives, and, based on that, offer recommendations on improving the items on Korean history. For this purpose, the previous first sixteen tests were used to extract all the Korean history items, which were then assessed for content, item style, difficulty level, and degree of discrimination. The scope and importance of the Korean history knowledge covered in the test were confirmed through content analysis, and through item-type analysis, it was discovered that with only a few "knowledge utilization type" questions taking into account the relationship with Korean education. Through an analysis of the items' difficulty and degree of discrimination, it was confirmed that the items in the Korean history area had higher difficulty and a lower degree of discrimination than other areas of Korean studies. Based on this comprehensive analysis, this study concluded that the items in the Korean history section of the current Test of Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language was limited in its assessment of a candidate's Korean language proficiency. Therefore, recommendations were offered on how to improve items in the Korean history section in a way that fulfills the requirements of this test while enabling Korean language teachers to effectively teach the Korean language using their knowledge of Korean history.