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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2020.18.8.511

Analysis on the development necessity of a safety health knowledge test for young children  

Kwak, Eunbog (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Chungcheong University)
Choi, Gyu yil (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Chungcheong University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.18, no.8, 2020 , pp. 511-518 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to emphasize the importance of the safety and health ability to safely protect body in a risky situation in infancy, but due to the lack of a valid test tool for measuring infant safety knowledge, measure the safety and health knowledge of infants. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, opinions of education experts and early childhood education experts were collected, and suitable factors for measuring safety and health knowledge of children aged 3-5 years were extracted. The measurement questions developed based on this were surveyed on 186 children aged 3-5 years old to verify the relevance of the question composition and the reliability of the contents. In the distribution of the item response, values of 0.8 or less were deleted, and items with a correlation of r<.40 or less were also deleted, and the reliability test showed more than .70. After exploratory factor analysis, it was developed into 23 questions in 3 areas. The total score of safety and health knowledge for the final question and the degree of correlation were above .80. The tool for measuring child safety and health knowledge developed in this study was confirmed to be appropriate for item discrimination, item reliability, and content validity, and thus will be used as basic data for measuring child safety and health knowledge. After the early childhood safety and health education program is implemented, Further research should verify the effectiveness of the early childhood safety and health program.
Keywords
Children; Safety health knowledge; measuring tools; validity; reliability;
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