The purpose of this study was to develop a multicultural belief assessment tool for young children teacher(the study Ⅰ) and explore on the variable of teacher related to the multicultural belief(the study Ⅱ). Thus question of each study were gener...
The purpose of this study was to develop a multicultural belief assessment tool for young children teacher(the study Ⅰ) and explore on the variable of teacher related to the multicultural belief(the study Ⅱ). Thus question of each study were generated as follows.
The study Ⅰ: How are reliability and validity of multicultural belief assessment tool of young children's teacher?
1. How is reliability of multicultural belief assessment tool of young children's teacher?
2. How are validity of multicultural belief assessment tool of young children's teacher?
2-1. How is content validity of multicultural belief assessment tool of young children's teacher?
2-2. How is construct validity of multicultural belief assessment tool of young children's teacher?
The study Ⅱ: Are difference on multicultural belief of young children's teacher by teacher-related variable?
1. Are difference on multicultural belief of young children's teacher by age and teaching career?
2. Are difference on multicultural belief of young children's teacher by multicultural experience?
2-1. Are difference on multicultural belief of young children's teacher by multicultural education trained experience(pre-service trained experience related to multicultural subjects, in-service training experience related to multicultural program)?
2-2. Are difference on multicultural belief of young children's teacher by multicultural education environment experience(whether multicultural home young children education, teacher's working city)?
2-3. Are difference on multicultural belief of young children's teacher by cross-cultural experience(overseas travel experience and overseas volunteer etc)?
The study Ⅰ was progress by four step. First 80 items based on the reviewing of relevant literatures was developed by pre-study and 63 items with content validity was modified. Second, as the first study, the questionnaire survey that was reconstructed 63 items, has been conducted with 297 young children's teachers and 41 items was modified after testing reliability and validity. Third, 236 young children's teachers did the questionnaire that is consisting of 41 items and 32 items from the 41 items have been modified through validate the reliability and validity. Forth, final 32 items were confirmed through tested to the reliability and validity. The studyⅠwas analyzed Cronbach a about the reliability and exploratory factor analysis(EFA) about the validity. The result of the study Ⅰ, multicultural belief of young children's teacher has been consist of the following six factor: multicultural understanding, multicultural sensitivity, multicultural curriculum, multicultural classroom management, multicultural organization climate, partnership among community, organization, and parent. Also, Cronbach a of each factor was 77~.91 and Cronbach a of total items was .96. The result of validity, the factor loading about each factor were .46~.78, cumulative variance was 64.07. And relation between each factor and total belief were .73~.93.
For the study Ⅱ, 224 young children's teacher were selected from kindergarten or day-care center located S city, G city, and T city. The Subjects complected the multicultural belief tool by five-likert. Collected data were analyzed by t-test, One-way ANOVA, and LSD method using the SPSS 12.0 program. The result of the analyses can be summarized as followings. Multicultural belief of young children's teacher were not difference on teacher's teaching age, whether multicultural home young children education, and cross-cultural experience. But young children's teachers who have more teaching care, teaching multicultural home young children education, and cross-cultural experience were show higher scores in the multicultural belief.