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Development and Validation of Core Competency Diagnostic Assessment for College Students Cho, Gyu-Pan․Ju, Hee-Jin․Choi, Jin-A․Bang, Hui-Won The purpose of the study is to develop and validate the Core Competency Diagnostic Assessment for College Students. Six factors of core competency of college students were identified based on the results of literature review, which are expertise, character, creativity, challenge, glocal, and communication. Each factor consists of four subfactors. Subfactors of expertise competency are knowledge exploring ability, information literacy, learning strategy, and major literacy. Subfactors of character competency are conscientiousness, sence of consideration, human being understanding, and social responsibility. Subfactors of creativity competency are problem solving ability, analysis & inference ability, critical thinking, and technology acceptance & literacy. Subfactors of challenge competency are leadership, self directed learning ability, self-management, and goal setting & practical ability. Subfactors of glocal competency are cultural inclusiveness, global citizenship, ability of foreign language, and local symbiosis. Subfactors of communication competency are interpersonal relationship ability, communication ability, conflict management ability, and teamwork. 348 items from six factors, which consist of four subfactors, were developed. 701 college students were selected for the study, and 606 students’ data were analyzed. To examine the content validity, it is examined by a test professional from department of education and a professor from department of Korean. Factor analysis for each factor confirmed each sub-factor. To examine the reliability the internal consistency (Cronbach α ) for each factor was computed. Based on these process 240 items were decided as items of the Core Competency Diagnostic Assessment for College Students. Each factor has high construct validity, each items are represented the each factors, and each facotr has internal consistency.