A Study on the Pre-service Teachers’ Stages of Concern and Perception of Free Semester System

The purpose of this research was to define implications for the pre-service teacher education course by analyzing the pre-service teachers’ stages of concern on the free semester system using the CBAM model. The research questions were as follows. Firstly, how is the stages of concern of pre-service teacher on the free semester system? Secondly, what is the difference of the stages of concern of pre-service teacher on the free semester system depending on the variables such as the grade, learning experience on free semester system and awareness of expanding the free semester system.BR The main results of this study were as follows. Firstly, as a result of analyzing the stages of concern of pre-service teachers on free semester system, the stage 0(perception) was the highest, the stage 4(result) was the lowest, and the pattern of positive non-user was shown. Secondly, there was no statistically significant difference in the stage of concern depending the grade of the pre-service teachers. Thirdly, as a result of analyzing whether there is a difference in the stage of concern depending on whether or not to study the free semester system, there was a significant difference in all the stages of concern except the stage 0 and 1. Lastly, as a result of analyzing the differences of concern stage according to whether or not they agreed to expand the free semester system, the level of concern of disagreeing group was higher than that of the agreeing group in the 6th stage (refocusing).