Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Year: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 4 SI
Page No. 3882 - 3886

A Study on the Relative Importance of Early Childhood Education Policy Assessment Scale Based on AHP Method

Authors : Byung-Man Kim

Abstract: The findings of the study on the relative importance of the early childhood policy assessment scale are expected to boost the utilization and practicality of the scale, to give some suggestions on how to expedite the development of early childhood education policy and finally, to provide significant information on the academic development of this field. AHP method were conducted to check the certainty of the early childhood education policy assessment criteria. The 32 panel members who participated in the Delphi survey were asked to analyze weight by using AHP method. Then the simple weight of the assessment categories, assessment criteria and assessment indexes was converted into percentage. As for the assessment categories, early childhood education policy publicness was given the most weight (34.2%), followed by policy suitability (31.7%), policy democracy (23.1%) and policy economic efficiency (11.0%). Afterwards, the simple weight of the assessment criteria and assessment indexes was respectively calculated within the superordinate dimensions, namely the assessment categories to which each of them belonged. As a result of analyzing the total weight of the assessment criteria and assessment indexes, public benefit (0.150) was found to be top priority for the assessment criteria, followed by feasibility (0.118), accountability (0.102) and sufficiency (0.090). As for the assessment indexes, top priority was given to the level of donation to the interests of preschoolers (0.063), followed by the level of fulfilling social obligation (0.056) and the level of long-tern benefit (0.053). In this study, the weights of the early childhood education assessment scale were estimated by a panel of experts who used the AHP. How much the responses of the experts were consistent was analyzed before their estimation of the weights and then the simple weights and total weights of the assessment categories, criteria and indicators were calculated.

How to cite this article:

Byung-Man Kim , 2018. A Study on the Relative Importance of Early Childhood Education Policy Assessment Scale Based on AHP Method. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 3882-3886.

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