유치원의 질관리 기제로서 장학과 평가의 실태와 인식

Abstract

This study aims to examine the current status of and perception towards supervision and evaluation in kindergarten, which serve a key role in a quality assurance system for kindergarten education, and to suggest measures to improve quality of education provided in kindergarten. To this end, the study analyzes the polls conducted with 671 kindergarten principals, 686 kindergarten teachers and 174 early supervisors at district offices of education. Based on the outcome of the analysis, the study further looks into measures to promote the quality of education provided by kindergartens. The study suggests the following three measures to improve supervision in kindergarten: First, the pool of district supervisors with expertise should be expanded and more enhanced training should be provided to the supervisors to help them improve their expertise; Second, more customized-supervision should be provided to meet the specific needs of individual kindergartens, and supervisors should provide more helpful feedback based on their supervision; Three, supervision should be conducted in a more autonomous manner with a more focus on the needs on the ground. The study also proposes additional three measures to provide better evaluation as follows: First, evaluation indicators should be reduced and categorized; Second, more systematic processes and procedures for evaluation should be adopted; Three, more substantive measures to take advantage of evaluation outcome should be developed, and; Fourth, a pool of qualified evaluators with expertise should be secured and training programs for the evaluators should be developed and shared.