교원양성기관 영어 교과 관련 교육과정과 초등교원 임용시험 영어과 문항 간 연계성 분석

A connectivity analysis of English curriculum of elementary school teacher training institutions and teacher recruitment examination for English

This study aims to investigate elementary school teacher recruitment examination for English by analyzing the connecting validity between the English curriculum of elementary school teacher training institutions and elementary school teacher recruitment examination items for the past 10 years. PCK (pedagogic content knowledge) criteria is used to analyze the curriculum and test items. The findings are as follows: Despite different phases of changes in the teacher recruitment examination, the curriculum of teacher training institutions did not change significantly. There were only minor changes to the curriculum such as the modification to some subject names and credit hours. In general, there was a concentration of credit hours in the knowledge area of s u bject content and teaching methods with more weight on the knowledge of curriculum. Despite the high portion of content knowledge, the lowest credit hours in the curriculum was the elementary English curriculum. On the other hand, teacher recruitment examination items shows the highest proportion of teaching method knowledge and curriculum knowledge. The current study found a significant discrepancy between the English curriculum of elementary school teacher training institutions and the teacher recruitment examination items.