An Attempt to Evaluate Leaders' Guiding Abilities in Forest Volunteer Activities : Questionnaire Surveys for Leaders in Forest Volunteer Activities at a High School

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  • 森林ボランティア活動指導者の指導能力評価の試み : 高校学校林整備行事の指導者へのアンケートから
  • シンリン ボランティア カツドウ シドウシャ ノ シドウ ノウリョク ヒョウカ ノ ココロミ コウコウ ガッコウリン セイビ ギョウジ ノ シドウシャ エノ アンケート カラ

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Today, many schools have school forest volunteer activity programs, where leaders from various sectors guide students. To evaluate leaders' guiding skills by themselves, study the validities and the problems of self-evaluation, questionnaire surveys were carried out. As a result of principal component analysis, two factors: synthetic guiding ability and facilitative/instructive ability are found out. The skills such as "have students understand the purpose of activities" carried weight with synthetic guiding ability. Especially leaders' occupation had an effect on their abilities. On synthetic guiding ability, teachers were evaluated the highest and public employees the lowest. On facilitative ability, both teachers and public employees got high scores. On instructive ability, forestry engineers showed high score. On synthetic guiding ability, the score of self-evaluating had a tendency to be lower than that of evaluating by others, and the more times citizen volunteers had participated in forest volunteer activities, the lower their scores became. So self-evaluation is useful to prioritize the skills should be acquired, to grasp the differences of leaders' who have different attributes guiding abilities. On the other hand, it is necessary to take steps to evaluate their guiding abilities using consistent criteria, such as the leaders meeting on criteria for self-evaluation.

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