본 연구의 목적은 유아용 온라인 컨텐츠의 인터페이스 디자인을 위한 설계의 지침이 되는 평가준거와 도구 시안을 개발하고, 개발된 시안의 평가영역에 대한 적절성을 검토하는 것이다. 이를 위해, 문헌고찰과 기존의 유아교육용 소프트웨어 평가 및 유아용 웹사이트 평가 양식들을 분석하여 작성한 기초안에 대하여 전문가 면담 및 2차례에 걸친 델파이 조사를 통해 2개 영역, 9개준거, 59문항의 유아용 온라인 컨텐츠의 인터페이스 디자인 평가도구의 시안을 개발하였으며, 2회의 델파이 조사에 참여한 패널 및 평가도구의 사용자인 개발 전문가를 대상으로 실시한 3차 전문가 조사에서는 제시한 컨텐츠의 평가도구 적용 후 적합성에 대하여 적용하도록 하여 평가도구의 타당도, 신뢰도 및 문항의 양호도를 검증하였다. 그 결과, 평가 도구에 포함되어 있는 대부분의 평가문항들은 타당하고 신뢰로운 것으로 분석되었다.
The purpose of this research was to develop essential tools to guide the ‘Children’s online contents designing,’ and verify its compatibility. Interface Design is important essential to be evaluated from the ‘Children’s on-line contents designing’, which is mainly focused on Children Education. Up to now, most of the software and websites designed for Children’s Education was mainly evaluated on its contents. Therefore this research was done to include characteristics of its Communication Media, which directly affects children’s education, into the Interface Design Evaluation. The following are the process of the research and its result. First, I developed a tentative plan by reviewers of literatures and existing early childhood educational software evaluation and children’s website evaluations. Also, after interviewing professionals and after two examinations of the Delphi research I developed a tentative plan for an 'Evaluation Tool for Interface Designing of Children’s On-line Contents' containing 3 categories, 9 sub categories, 59 items. The 3 categories are divided in to ‘Compatibility of Supporting Action’, ‘Convenience of Using Structure’ and ‘Efficiency of Expressional Media’. The 9 sub categories are, ‘self-direction of action’, ‘supporting of learning objectives’ and ‘Compatibility of technique’ in Compatibility of Supporting Action’, ‘Consistency’, ‘Navigation’, and ‘Supporting User’ in ‘Convenience of Using Structure’ and ‘Shape of Screen Composition’ and ‘Function of Visual Elements’, ‘ of 'Interest of Multimedia Elements’ in ‘Efficiency of Expressional Media’. Secondly, to understand the compatibility of 'Evaluation Tool for Interface Desining of Children’s On-line Contents' I proceeded with a third examination of the Delphi research and verified its reasonability, reliability, and satisfactory. In the third research, the final evaluation tool was applied to evaluation real contents and asked the panels and developer as directional evaluator of the evaluation tool who were involved in the first two examinations to answer our survey of its compatibility. Their answers were the following. To verify the 'content validity' we analyzed each item's distributions of answers, averages and standard deviations, and the evaluation items were ‘compatible,’ or ‘very compatible.’ The coefficient of correlation by Pearson between evaluation subcategories, which reveals construct validity were from .24 to .80 and the correlation between total score and subcategories were .63 to .85. Cronbach's α, which shows the unitedly of the items was .73 and .74, average of .74, which also showed satisfactory level of its reliability.