Research institutes such as KEDI (the Korean Educational Development Institute), KERIS (the Korea Education and research information Service), KRIVET (the Korea Research institute for vocational Education and training), and KICE (the Korea Institute for curriculum and Evaluation) play important roles in the development and assessment of the national curriculum. KICE for example, established in 1998 as a government-funded educational research institution, operates two offices and several divisions and bureaus, namely the office for planning and Innovation, the office for College scholastic Ability Test, the Division of Curriculum-textbook Research , the Division of teaching and learning Research, the Division of Education Evaluation Research, the Division of National Test Administration, the Bureau of Administration, Computing and information, and the English Education Policy and Research Centre.