어린이집 평가인증 재인증 및 사후유지관리에 한 교직원의 인식

Abstract

accreditation, re-accreditation and maintenance and to propose the means of making improvements ofthe evaluative accreditation system on child care centers. The subjects of the study were 462 personnelincluding 73 directors of teachers and 389 nursing teachers who are in preparation of re-accreditationafter holding one at the year of 2011, among the child care centers located in Gyeongju and Pohang. Questionnaire on 'Teaching Staff's Perception on Re-accreditation and Maintenance of Child CareCenter Evaluative Accreditation' of Jang, Sang Ran (2008) had been utilized as a conformance checktool. The questionnaire had been conducted from July 19 to 27, 2012. The conclusions of this study were as follows :First, the teaching staff’s perception on re-accreditation of child care center evaluative accreditationrepresented positive response on the impact of that evaluative accreditation in regards to 3-yearsvalidity, submitting annual report, propriety of re-accreditation by utilizing the evaluation certificationindex, intention of re-applying for re-accreditation after 3 years, improvement effect on the quality ofre-accreditation, improving the professionalism of teaching staffs, the effect of evaluative accreditationon programs and training courses after re-accreditation. Terms of validity showed significant differenceas time goes on evaluative accreditation. Intention of re-applying for re-accreditation showed significantdifference depending on the positions. Improvement effect on the quality of re-accreditation and effectsof evaluative accreditation on programs and training courses after re-accreditation showed significantdifference depending on the types of child care center. Second, the teaching staff’s perception on maintenance of child care center evaluative accreditationshowed that ‘once or twice per semester’ was most answered for the duration of the selfre-accreditation and that ‘systemizing administrative management and checking required items’ wasmost answered for maintaining the evaluative accreditation as a follow-up management. It had beenfound from the questionnaire that ‘overload of works from administrative works and nursery works’was the primary reason why it is difficult to perform the follow-up management. It shows the average response on facility environment and program-improving effort for maintaining accreditation status. ‘Inprogress’ was answered the second most.