A longitudinal study including surveys of four panels will be conducted by National Academy for Educational Research to evaluate the effectiveness of the new curriculum named “12-year Basic Education Program” implemented since 2019. This integrated 5-year project, refers to the first phase of the longitudinal study, will survey the first two panels, from grade 7 to grade 9, including the last batch of students who will be taught according to the current curriculum and the first batch of students taught according to the new curriculum. The main dependent variables in this integrated project include students’ literacies in Mandarin reading, English, mathematics, science, social studies, and the positive attitude toward the learning in the five subject areas. Additional background variables at student, class and school levels will be also collected to explain the students’ performance and their progression in learning. The between-subject design for samples in the two panels will be applied to evaluate the effectiveness of new curriculum by comparing the performance and progression of the batch of students taught by the new curriculum with ones of those who taught by the current curriculum. The within-subject design embedded in the research framework of the longitudinal study allows us to investigate the factors of students’ learning performance and their progression. The results of this integrated project are expected to provide feedbacks to the teaching practices, school management, and the national curriculum for junior high school education.
