유아교육기관 조직창의성 척도 개발

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a tool that can measure organizational creativity, which is a key element for the achievement of educational goals and the organizational development of early childhood education institutions in a complex and dynamic educational environment, and to verify its validity.

In order to accomplish this purpose, two research problems were established as follows: First, what is composed of an organizational creativity scale for early childhood education institutions? Second, what is the validity and reliability of an organizational creativity scale for early childhood education institutions?

First, the concept of organizational creativity in early childhood education institutions and the final draft for the organizational creativity scale were developed by literature review, focus group interview, delphi survey, and pilot study. As a result, “organizational creativity in early childhood education institutions” was conceptualized as “the members of early childhood education institutions pursuing new and useful behaviors” in order to solve various problems in the field of early childhood education and to drive positive changes and performance in the institution through organizational creativity. In addition, the final draft of the organizational creativity scale for early childhood education institutions consists of a total of 57 items with eight factors, including professional competence, creative competence, administrator's leadership, autonomy, communication, organizational culture, organizational resources, and creative management system, in three levels such as individual, group, and organization. Second, a main survey was conducted with 496 administrators and teachers at early childhood education institutions, and the organizational creativity scale for early childhood education institutions was validated through a statistical verification. As a result of examining the item response distribution and item discrimination in order to investigate the quality of the items in the final draft, there was no item with extreme values, and a normal distribution was assumed for all items. This indicates that the items are suitable for the evaluation of organizational creativity in early childhood education institutions. In addition, there were significant differences between the upper and lower groups in all items, suggesting that each item well represents the groups. For the construct validity of the final draft, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis, the three factors of the individual level accounted for approximately 61.41% of the total variance, the three factors of the group level 70.38%, and the two factors of the organization level 63.35%. As a result of exploring the suitability of the research model and the statistical significance of the parameter estimates through the confirmatory factor analysis, the eight factors of the three levels were determined suitable. As a result of examining the internal consistency of the 48 items finally selected for reliability verification, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for all items was calculated as .90, indicating that this scale can consistently evaluate organizational creativity in early childhood education institutions. In addition, as a result of revising the OCEI scale developed by Roh Pung-du et al. (2011) and investigating the relationship with this scale for the concurrent validity, they were mostly found to have a positive correlation. The final organizational creativity scale for early childhood education institutions consists of 48 items on a 5-point scale with eight factors, including professional competence (6 items), creative personality (4 items), creative efficacy (3 items), administrator’s leadership (10 items), autonomy (3 items), communication (8 items), organizational culture (5 items), and creative management system (9 items), at three levels such as individual, group, and organization. As a result, the scale was confirmed to be a highly reliable tool that can appropriately and consistently evaluate organizational creativity in early childhood education institutions. In this regard, this scale is expected to contribute to diagnosing and improving the organizational creativity of early childhood education institutions.