실과교육 조사연구의 방법론 분석과 개선 방안

Methodological Analyses and New Directions of Survey Research in Practical Arts Education

The purpose of this study was to review practical arts education as a field of inquiry as well as methods of research in practical arts education and to examine the survey research in practical arts education in order to suggest a new direction for better research. This study was carried out through by reviewing the literature available and by analyzing the selected 24 articles and Masters theses in practical arts education with regard to their methodological perspectives. It was concluded that the practical arts education would be a field of inquiry and most methods of research would be applied to it as was in education. The features of the survey research were found as follows: (1)Majority of the research topics were related to the curriculum, the methods of teaching and learning and evaluation in practical arts education. (2)The population for the study was largely limited to the elementary teachers. (3)The most popular mode of data collection was the mailed questionnaire. The weaknesses of the survey research with regard to the methodological perspective were as follows: (1)The sample that was drawn from the selected area did not represent the population that was being surveyed. (2)The use of the sampling method was not appropriately employed. (3)The sample size was not appropriately decided by the researcher. (4)Some did not report information about the reliability and validity of the instruments. (5)The response rate of the mailed questionnaire was mostly less than 100 % but the collected data were analyzed without checking the nonresponse error. (6)Other appropriate procedures were not followed while conducting the survey research, especially, lack of building of a theoretical framework. The solutions to these problems and new directions for better research were suggested in the paper.