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A survey on perception and improvement of special education teacher evaluation

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2014, 15(4), pp.77-103
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Seoung-Woo Ahn 1 Sangbae CHOI 2 Byungdo Park 3 kim Jung Eun 3

1부산대학교
2공주대학교
3한국국제대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was conducted for finding out the special education teacher's perception and improvement plan for special education teacher evaluation. The subjects were 3,143. The results are following. The results showed that special education teachers’ understanding degree of teacher evaluation was 3.28, which was higher than mid(3.00) and teacher’s perception of importance and fairness of teacher evaluation was 2.89 and 2.73 respectively, which were lower than mid. The knowledge degree of teacher evaluation was different in variables such as age, educational career, category of school, type of work place and position. Most responds were that proper functions of teacher evaluation were providing a chance to teacher self-monitoring and external motivation of teachers activities and adverse effects of teacher evaluation were poor function to teacher quality management and instruction improvement, disharmony feeling and unfairness because of teacher evaluation. To efficient applications of teacher evaluation results, many responded that the results should be applied not for screening the unqualified or promotion but for teacher’s professionalism improvement, and 77% teachers required one unified system not current complicated three teacher evaluations. 96% responds were that the method of special teacher evaluation must consider types of work place. These results suggest the necessity of teacher evaluation considering the characteristics of special education teacher.

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