The purpose of the research is to deal with child care teachers’ perception of necessity, efficacy, utilization and the maintenance, appropriateness of re-assessment certification, teaching efficacy and job stress, and to figure out the relationship...
The purpose of the research is to deal with child care teachers’ perception of necessity, efficacy, utilization and the maintenance, appropriateness of re-assessment certification, teaching efficacy and job stress, and to figure out the relationship between teaching efficacy and job stress after re-assessment certification. For the research, a survey of was conducted to 262 teachers at child care centers in Daejeon and Chungcheong-do which received re-assessment certification.
In order to measure child care teachers’ perception of necessity, efficacy, utilization and the maintenance, appropriateness of re-assessment certification, the research refers to the survey conducted by Ki-Sim Lee(2010). For teaching efficacy, Sciencce Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument(STEBI) developed by Enochs and Riggs(1990) is used in the modified form. To measure job stress, Modified Teacher Occupational Stress Factor Question(MTOSFQ) developed by Clark(1980) and modified by D'Arienzo, Moracco & Krajewski(1981) is used in the modified form. The collected data were analyzed by using ANOVA, posteriori tests, multiple regression analysis.
The results are as follows: First, child care teachers generally have positive perception of necessity, efficacy, utilization and the maintenance, appropriateness of re-assessment certification. Perception of necessity of re-assessment certification is high among child care teachers over the age of 50, and perception of utilization and the maintenance of re-assessment certification is high among teachers over 50, with more than seven years of work experience.
Second, teaching efficacy to after re-assessment certification is high in both individual and group teaching efficacy. The result shows that the older teachers are and the more work experience they have, the higher teaching efficacy they have.
Third, job stress of child care teachers about after re-assessment certification is a little higher than the average. It is indicated that teachers working at workplace nursery has highest level of stress, and that he older teachers are and the more work experience they have, the lower stress they get.
Fourth, the relationship between teaching efficacy and job stress after re-assessment certification shows that teachers get lower job stress as they have higher teaching efficacy. This indicates that how child care teachers assess their own belief and ability can have influence on their job stress.
Therefore, it is necessary at the national level to establish the stable, systematic and site-based re-assessment certification to raise the child care teachers' perception of the system and teaching efficacy and thereby to reduce job stress.