The Development and Validation of an Evaluation Scale for Early Years Children`s English Textbooks
Hye Jeong Choi , Eun Ja Hyun
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop an appropriate scale for evaluating early years children`s English textbooks and to confirm the validity and reliability for the scale thus developed. The scale was administered to 563 Korean early childhood English teachers. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) of the 24 item scale demonstrated Cronbach` α=.94 for internal consistency of the total items. Confimatory Factor Analysis (CFA) supported a four-factor structure. Cross-Validation for the retest accepted the four-factors. Those four factors were as follows; Contents & Organization as factor 1, Illustrations & Designs as factor 2, Materials & Topics, as factor 3 and Objectives as factor 4. The author suggests that these afore mentioned factors will prove to be most useful for evaluating the children`s English textbooks which are apparently published in an often quite indiscriminant manner.
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