초등영어교육에서의 활용을 위한 인성평가지 개발

Development of character test items for primary English education

The purpose of this study is to locate the character indices and to develop self-reported evaluation items of character appropriate for EFL teaching contexts confirming the validity and reliability of the developed scale. For the study, the Delphi method was employed with 88 experts to locate the character indices and to determine the order of importance and realization among them. The result showed that there are 12 basic character indices to be used in English teaching. The indices were selected considering Kendall s W-test, Borich, and the Locus for Focus. The evaluation scale was administered to 38 teachers three times and 725 Korean elementary school students for the study. The results were analyzed using two factor analyses: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmative Factor Analysis (CFA). EFA of the 18 item scale demonstrated Cronbach s α=.96 for internal consistency of the total items. CFA supported a six-factor structure. Cross-Validation for the retest accepted six-factors. Those six factors were as follows; Gratitude and Etiquette as factor 1, Fairness as factor 2, Sharing and Consideration as factor 3, Sincerity as factor 4, Sense of Responsibility as factor 5, and Broad-mindedness as factor 6. The Model Fit Indexes such as Comparative Fit Index(CFI), Tucker-Lewis Index(TLI), and Root Mean Square Error of Approximation(RMSEA) proved that Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) is satisfactory. It is hoped that the aforementioned factors and test items developed in this study can be useful to evaluate character education in EFL teaching. The test items can be also one of the various and convenient evaluation tools which were explicitly suggested to use in the 2015 Revised English National Curriculum.