Development of an Evaluation Tool for Middle School Student Sex Education.
- Author:
Soon Ok YANG
1
;
Shin Jeong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing Science, Hallym University, Korea. kimsj@hallym.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Middle school student;
Sexuality education;
Evaluation tool
- MeSH:
Education;
Humans;
Reproducibility of Results;
Sex Education*;
Specialization;
Staff Development;
Child Health
- From:Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2004;10(3):332-339
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To develop a tool to evaluate middle school sex education programs. METHOD: An evaluation tool was developed in 4 stages: first, preliminary items were developed based on the sex education guidebook for teachers published by the Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development; second, a panel of specialists reduced the number of preliminary items by 3 validity tests on the contents; third, final items were selected from the results of pre-test. Finally, reliability and validity were tested by a sample of 601 middle school students of both genders attending all three grades. RESULTS: The developed evaluation tool contained 31 items on the sexual knowledge and 22 items on the sexual attitude. The results of reliability tests were as follows: Cronbachs alpha for sexual knowledge was .84; and for sexual attitude was .88. CONCLUSION: This study suggested the developed evaluation tool for sex education programs for middle school students had a high degree of reliability and validity.Therefore, it can be utilized to effectively evaluate Korean middle school sex education programs.
