| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan often suffers natural disasters such as typhoons, torrential rains, and earthquakes, causing serious loss of life and property. According to a report published by the World Bank, about 73 % of Taiwan’s population lives in areas that are likely to be impacted by more than three types of disasters, and more than 90% of the country′s land areas affected by two kinds of disasters.
Under the premise that disaster prevention education is included in the Grade 1-9 Curriculum Guidelines, the disaster prevention education program has become one of the compulsory courses for schoolchildren. It is key for primary school children to acquire disaster prevention knowledge, strengthens basic disaster prevention concepts, and then gradually promote simple rescue or response skills while they are in the face of disasters, so to reduce the loss of lives and property.
For reasons outlined above, this research combined with a well-known online interactive education platform in the United States - Kahoot! to further explore disaster promotion, guide training, and future adopt the equivalent time series quasi-experiment design by using Kahoot! to research disaster prevention literacy regarding reporting cases, fire and electricity safety, carbon monoxide poisoning, and other types of disasters.
The research data is analyzed by SPSS software, with descriptive statistics, item analysis, reliability and discrimination, independent sample t test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation, and regression analysis. Therefore, the research can investigate the correlation between 1st to 2nd and 3rd graders concerning the awareness of disaster prevention, between disaster knowledge performance and the attitudes and skills, among the three dimensions of disaster prevention literacy differed by gender, personal disaster experience, knowledge acquired sources. This study further explore the effectiveness of disaster prevention promotion of Taoyuan Disaster Education Center.
The results suggested that school children have less awareness of disasters regarding tsunamis, electricity safety, and carbon monoxide, while their attitudes and skills for disaster prevention and response capabilities must be strengthened according to their grades focused on fires, tsunamis, and gas leakage. Moreover, it is found that the level of disaster awareness is closely related to disaster prevention and response capabilities. It is personal experiences, not gender, that correlates to disaster prevention literacy. Conclusively, the findings suggest Taoyuan Disaster Education Center advance its guide literacy training to enhance comprehensive guide abilities.
Keywords: Disaster Education, Kahoot, Gamification of Learning | en_US |