• Human Ecology Research
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.293-305
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• 2016

This study examines the mediation effect of teacher-child interactions in the process of the impact of teacher's teaching-efficacy on childhood education institutions and classroom environment on peer-play interactions. We used data from 970 children aged between 49 and 55 months and 970 homeroom teachers from the fifth Korean Child Panel (2012) of the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education. The model fitness was excellent after data were statistically analyzed with model of structure to testify the relationship and effect among teaching efficacy, classroom environment, teacher-child interactions, and peer-play interactions. First, the analysis also showed that the teacher's teaching efficacy did not influence peer-play interactions directly, but gave an indirect effect on the peer-play interactions with the mediation of the teacher-child interactions. Second, the classroom environment directly and indirectly influenced the peer-play interactions with the mediation of the teacher-child interactions. Third, the variable of teacher-child interactions was fully effective as a mediating variable in the process of the teaching efficacy and classroom environment influence on teacher-child interactions. Teaching efficacy and classroom environment influenced the peer-play interactions through the mediation of the teacher-child interactions. The significance of mediation effect of the teacher-child interactions was verified through a bootstrapping method.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.687-697
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• 2003

This study was conducted to investigate the antecedents of teachers' science teaching efficacy in day-care setting. Also, this study aimed to identify relationships between day-care teachers' personal science teaching efficacy and their perspectives on early childhood science education. The subjects were 176 day-care teachers in rural area of ChoongCheongNam-Do. The survey method was used to collect data from the day-care teacher. The instrument were Rigg & Enochs(1990)'s Science Teaching Efficacy Belief and Kim(l998)'s scales for the Goa1s in Early Childhood Science Education. Main results were as follows: 1. Day-care teachers' personal science teaching efficacy were significantly related with the personal variables such as teachers' education, in-service science workshops, science book reading, science-related hobby but not with teachers' age, pre-service science credits and total years of teaching experience. 2. Among the environmental variables, science activity areas were significantly associated with day-care teachers' personal science teaching efficacy. However, location of day-care center, age of children, number of children, teacher-child ratio, facilities for science education and scheduled time for science education did not affect it. 3. Day-care teachers of high content- and process-oriented goals in early childhood science education were highly efficacious teacher, while the teachers of low content- and process-oriented perspectives gained the lowest score. However, the content-oriented teachers and the process-oriented teachers did not differ in terms of day-care teachers' personal science teaching efficacy.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2018

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of preschool teachers' qualification (education level, teaching experience, major, and certification) and competency variables (teaching efficacy and teacher-child interaction) on young children's development (cognition, language, and social development). The data came from $5^{th}$ Wave of Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC) from the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, and the multiple regression analyses as well as Pearson's correlation analyses were used. The results showed the positive associations between teachers' competency (teaching efficacy and teacher-child interaction) and child development. However, we did not find significant effects of teachers' qualification on young children's development. Based on the results, we proposed a policy implication that teacher qualification needed to be discussed with teacher competency to improve teacher quality.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.557-566
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• 2015

This study investigated the effects of multi-culture acceptability and multi-culture teaching efficacy on young child-teacher relationships. The teachers' attitude towards multi-culture education was included in the analysis as a mediator between multi-culture acceptability and multi-culture teaching efficacy. Participants were 295 teachers and 295 young children between 3 and 5 years in childcare centers located in Seoul, Incheon, Ulsan, Gyeonggi, and North Gyeongsang Province. Teachers completed questionnaires regarding multi-culture acceptability, multi-culture teaching efficacy, and attitude towards multi-culture education. Collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, Structural Equation Model, and Sobel test with SPSS ver. 18.0 and AMOS ver. 21.0. The results were as follows. First, the subscale of multi-culture acceptability and multi-culture teaching efficacy generally showed a positive correlation with closeness and conflict in the subscale of young child-teacher relationships. Second, teacher's multi-culture acceptability directly influenced the young child-teacher relationship. In addition, the impact of multi-culture teaching efficacy on young child-teacher relationship was mediated perfectly by the multi-culture education attitude. The results suggest that the multi-culture teaching efficacy promote early childhood multicultural education attitudes and that can be changed to positive teacher relationships.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제44권9호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among early childhood teachers' attitudes toward music education, music teaching practice, and music teaching efficacy. A total of 255 early childhood teachers participated in the study and data were analyzed through frequency, percentile, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and Pearson's correlation. The results of this study indicated that early childhood teachers' music teaching efficacy, attitudes toward music education and music teaching practice were influenced mainly by the teacher's own educational level. They also showed that early childhood teachers' music teaching efficacy, attitudes toward music education, and music teaching practice were correlated with one another. In conclusion, the early child teachers' sense of music teaching efficacy turned out to be a very important factor in early childhood teachers' music education.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.97-108
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate what variables have a significant effect on child care center teachers' mathematics teaching efficacy among teachers' individual variables, mathematics activity variables, and teachers' awareness variables, and also whether these results are different for teachers of 0 to 2-year-olds when compared to teachers of 3 to 5-year-olds. The subjects consisted of 438 teachers from child care centers located in D city and K province of Korea. The results of this study were as follows: First, mathematics activity variables had a significant effect on the mathematics teaching efficacy of both teacher groups. Second, teachers' awareness of the environment of mathematics education had a significant influence on the mathematics teaching efficacy of both teacher groups, and for teachers of 0 to 2-year-olds, that influence was the greatest among all of the variables. Third, teachers' awareness of the purpose of mathematics education had a significant effect on the mathematics teaching efficacy of only teachers of 0 to 2-year-olds. Lastly. teachers' awareness of the mathematics education curriculum had a significant influence on the mathematics teaching efficacy of only teachers of 3 to 5-year-olds, and that influence was the greatest. These results were discussed in terms of different types of support for each teacher group to improve the quality of mathematics education.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.143-160
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• 2021

Objective: This study explored the relationship between early childhood teachers' teaching efficacy, teacher-child interaction, and preschoolers' school readiness. Methods: The data were drawn from the seventh wave of the Panel Study on Korean Children. The subjects of this study were 1,150 preschoolers and their teachers. Early childhood teachers reported their teaching efficacy, their interaction with preschoolers, and preschoolers' school readiness. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results: First, early childhood teachers' teaching efficacy did not have a direct effect on preschoolers' school readiness. Second, early childhood teachers' teaching efficacy had an indirect effect on preschoolers' school readiness through teacher-child interaction. In other words, teachers with a high level of teaching efficacy had high-quality interactions with preschoolers, which led to preschoolers showing a high level of school readiness. Conclusion/Implications: The results of this study highlight the importance of teachers' high teaching efficacy and high-quality interactions between teachers and preschoolers to improve preschoolers' school readiness. In addition, this study contributes to a better understanding of the mechanism by which teachers' teaching efficacy influences preschoolers' school readiness.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.57-72
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of teachers' vocational aptitude and sense of responsibility on their teaching efficacy in early childhood education and care. 259 teachers in ECEC were recruited from 19 daycare centers and the data were analyzed through frequency, percentage, Pearson's correlations, and stepwise regression using SPSS 18.0. The findings are as follows. First, teachers' teaching efficacy was significantly different according to their age, the number of years of teaching experiences, and education levels. Second, all degrees of teachers' vocational aptitude, sense of responsibility, and their teaching efficacy were higher than the median points. Second, teachers' efficacy relating with running class was affected most by the ability of safe management in vocational aptitude, and teaching methods in sense of responsibility. For teachers' efficacy relating to teaching, acceptability/sensitivity in vocational aptitude and motivation had the most impact. The implication was discussed in order to figure out the ways to increase teachers' efficacy.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.325-352
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• 2011

본 연구는 영아보육교사의 내적 교육신념인 교수효능감과 직무스트레스에 대해서 알아보고 영아보육교사의 교수효능감과 직무스트레스의 상관관계 및 교수효능감이 직무스트레스에 미치는 영향력은 어떠한지 알아보고자 하였다. 연구대상은 경기지역 국공립, 민간, 가정 보육시설에서 근무하고 있는 36개월 미만의 영아반 교사를 대상으로 설문조사를 하였다. 결과처리를 위하여 ANOVA분석, 상관관계분석, 다중회귀분석을 수행하였다. 연구결과로 첫째, 영아보육교사의 교수효능감은 보통보다 높게 나타났으며 일반적 교수효능감이 개인적 교수효능감보다 높게 나타나 전반적으로 영아보육교사 자신의 교수효능감을 높게 인식하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 둘째, 영아보육교사의 직무스트레스는 보통보다 낮게 나타났다. 하위 영역별로 보면 업무관련 스트레스가 가장 높았으며 다음으로 영아들과의 활동 스트레스, 개인관련 스트레스 순으로 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 교수효능감과 직무스트레스간의 관계는 부적 상관관계를 보였다. 교수효능감의 하위 요인 중에서 일반적 교수효능감은 직무스트레스와 상관성이 없는 것으로 나타났으며, 개인적 교수효능감 만이 유의미한 부적상관을 보였다. 영아보육교사의 교수효능감이 직무스트레스에 미치는 영향력은 개인적 교수효능감 만이 직무스트레스에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며 개인적 교수효능감이 높을수록 직무스트레스는 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 일반적 특성 중에서는 교육수준, 월 급여, 근무시간이 직무스트레스에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 교육수준이 높을수록, 월 급여가 적을수록, 근무시간이 많을수록 영아보육교사의 직무스트레스는 높아진다는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 영아보육교사의 교수효능감을 향상시키고 직무스트레스를 감소시키는 방안을 제시하였다.

• 한국보육학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.49-63
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• 2017

이 연구에서는 영유아교사의 수학적 태도와 수학교수효능감의 관계에서 조절효과를 가질 것으로 예상되는 변인으로 수학교과교육학지식을 선택하여 연구하였다. 영유아교사의 수학적 태도와 수학교수효능감의 관계에서 수학교과교육학지식의 조절효과를 알아보기 위해 수도권 및 강원도에 위치한 어린이집 및 유치원에 재직중인 교사 500명에게 질문지를 통한 연구를 실시하였다. 수학교수효능감의 측정을 위해 Luo(2000)의 도구를 정정희(2001a)가 수정, 번안한 영유아교사용 수학교수효능감 척도를 사용하였고, 수학적 태도의 측정을 위해 Smith(2000)의 도구를 번안하여 사용하였다. 수학교과교육학지식의 측정을 위해 홍희주(2012)가 개발한 수학교과교육학지식 측정도구를 표준보육과정 및 누리과정을 반영하여 수정하여 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 IBM SPSS 21.0을 통해 중다회귀분석을 사용해 분석하였다. 연구결과, 영유아교사의 수학교과교육학지식은 수학적 태도와 수학교수효능감의 관계를 조절한다. 즉, 수학교과교육학지식 수준이 높을 경우 수학적 태도가 수학교수효능감에 미치는 긍정적인 영향을 더 강화할 수 있다. 이 연구는 수학교과교육학지식이 조절효과를 가진다는 점을 밝혀 영유아교사의 수학교수효능감 향상을 위한 교사교육 프로그램에서 다루어져야 할 내용들에 대한 근거를 제공할 것으로 기대된다.