Development and Application of Evaluation Tool for Sexuality Education in Elementary School.
- Author:
Soon Ok YANG
1
;
Geum Hee JEONG
;
Shin Jeong KIM
;
Que Young LEE
;
Sung Sook BAEK
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing Science, Hallym University, Korea. soyang@hallym.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Elementary school;
Sexuality education;
Evaluation tool
- MeSH:
Education*;
Evaluation Studies as Topic;
Humans;
Korea;
Reproducibility of Results;
Sexuality*;
Staff Development;
Child Health;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2002;8(3):334-343
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
This study was aimed at primarily to develop a tool to evaluate sexuality education and secondarily to test effectiveness through application of developed evaluation tools in elementary school. The results from this study were summarized below: 1. On the basis of targeting the lower grades (1st- 3th year) and the higher grades (4th-6th year) elementary school students' sexuality education guidebooks published by Korea Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development, 71 preliminary items targeting the lower grades, 90 preliminary items targeting the higher grades were developed. 2. Through the validity test about the contents of the preliminary items three times, the items were regulated to 65 items targeting the lower grads and 57 items targeting the higher grades. And then, the preliminary items were re-regulated to 40 items separately. Then, pre-test which targeting each 30 students was enforced. 3.Finally, the evaluation tools for sexuality education that consisted of 40 items targeting the lower grades and the higher grades were developed. 4.Reliability test of the developed tools, sexuality education evaluation tools showed alpha coefficient of internal consistency were 0.8355 (for the use of the lower grades) and 0.8881 (for the use of the higher grades). 5.To apply the developed sexuality education evaluation tools, 10-times sexuality education were carried out class unit and pre-post test were done using same questionnaire, which contains developed tool, there were significant difference in low grade (t=16.548, p=0.000), high grade (t=14.773, p=0.000). The results of this study suggest that the evaluation tool for sexuality education in elementary school may be a useful tool with a high degree of reliability and validity. In this sense, the evaluation tool for sexuality education developed by this study can be effectively utilized in Korea elementary schools.
