Development of an Evaluation Tool for Middle School Student Sex Education / 아동간호학회지

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: To develop a tool to evaluate middle school sex education programs. METHOD: An evaluation tool was developed in 4 stages first, preliminary items were developed based on the sex education guidebook for teachers published by the Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development; second, a panel of specialists reduced the number of preliminary items by 3 validity tests on the contents; third, final items were selected from the results of pre-test. Finally, reliability and validity were tested by a sample of 601 middle school students of both genders attending all three grades. RESULTS: The developed evaluation tool contained 31 items on the sexual knowledge and 22 items on the sexual attitude. The results of reliability tests were as follows Cronbachs alpha for sexual knowledge was .84; and for sexual attitude was .88. CONCLUSION: This study suggested the developed evaluation tool for sex education programs for middle school students had a high degree of reliability and validity.Therefore, it can be utilized to effectively evaluate Korean middle school sex education programs.