Analysis on Kindergarten Teachers’ Stage of Concerns about Software Education: An Application of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model(CBAM)

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Park, Sun-Mi Jung, Ji-Hyun Kang, Min-Jeng
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	Even though software (SW) education has not been considered part of the current national kindergarten curriculum, in practice there is growing interest in adopting it. Teachers would be expected to play a key role in the successful introduction and implementation of new educational changes, such as SW education. In preparation for its adoption in ECE, it would be useful to determine ECE teachers' perception and attitudes toward early childhood software education. For this study, 219 ECE teachers' level of concern toward SW education was surveyed using the Stages of Concern Questionnaire. It was found that the teachers' level of concern was the highest at stage 0-Unconcerned and that they had high levels of stage management, personal and informational concern. Thus, a non-user pattern was mostly indicated. However, compared to the typical non-user pattern, the pattern aspect close to critical non-user ever appeared to some extent. In addition, a significant difference in the level of concern was shown at all stages depending on the awareness of the necessity for SW education. The teachers with SW training experience showed a higher intensity only at stage 0. There was a statistically significant difference in stages 0 and 6 depending on the future implementation decision. These results will be utilized as a resource in building an ECE teachers' support system according to their level of concern about SW education.
Starting Page	462
Ending Page	471
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.2.462
Volume Number	19
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://jkais99.org/journal/Vol19No02/vol19no02p54.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.2.462
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article