| Summary: | 碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 幼兒保育學系 === 93 === ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this study is to develop Situational Judgment Inventory(SJI) as a measure of preschool young children’s practical intelligence based on Sternberg’s theory of the Practical Intelligence (PI). Presented by flash animation, the SJI simulates a series of problem situations for young children possibly encountered in their everyday life. In the SJI, each life-related situations have 3 feasible problem-solving alternatives for young children under adaptive condition, shaping, and selective dimension. Those subjects rating the effectiveness of each alternative by operating computer mouse to choose their own answers. From the SJI, young children will reveal their tacit knowledge while they face those problems occurring in real life contexts, and then their PI will be estimated. After both reliability and validity of SJI had been examined, the SJI are administered to 176 preschool young children in Kaohsiung City. All collected empirical data are analyzed through statistical approach of confirmatory factor analysis to review the quality of the SJI; in addition, the analysis of variance was employed to examine young children’s discrepancies of the PI among different background variables. The primer finding indicates that the SJI can test young children’s PI effectively under 3 conditions, and its psychometrical quality is ideal. Generally, young children perform well in selective dimension of the PI. For different backgrounds, young children of advantaged minorities perform better than those of disadvantaged minorities in both shaping and selective dimensions of the PI. Suggestions based on the above conclusion are provided to preschool, young children intelligence development and future research.
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