This study was an secondary analysis of the available data gathered in 1996 with the support of the Korea Foundation to develop a Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale for Primary School Teachers Major purposes of this study were 1) to measure the Se...
This study was an secondary analysis of the available data gathered in 1996 with the support of the Korea Foundation to develop a Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale for Primary School Teachers Major purposes of this study were 1) to measure the Self-Directed Learning Readiness Score of the female primary school teachers in Korea, 2) to examine their traits of self-directedness in learning in terms of six different factors, and 3) to compare these traits by various backgrounds of the female teachers.
The instrument applied to this study to measure the teacher's self-directedness was SDLRS-K-96(Korean version of Guglielmino's Se1f-Directed Learning Readiness Scale for Adults) originally translated and polished by Ji Woong Cheong and Chija Kim Cheong with the permission of Dr Lucy Guglielmino who had developed the instrument in the United States Statistical Tools used for the data analyses were ANOVA, LSD(Least Significant Difference), and Factor analyses etc.
The mean score of the SDLRS of the female primary school teachers was 214.39 with 22.04 standard deviation This was little bit lower than that of the male primary school teachers (M=215.38) and that of the female extension workers measured in 1991 (M=215.24) however, these were not statistically significant differences.
The female teachers showed some tendency that they are relatively strong in the "awareness of the responsibility in learning' and in "love of learning, but weak in the "openness to a challenge, and "inquisitive natures.
Female teachers' SDL scores showed positive relationships with their educational backgrounds the degree of participation in autotomous training programs, and the difference of their assignment of teaching as homeroom teachers However, it showed negative relations with their length of teaching experiences.