본 연구의 목적은 메타분석을 활용하여 유아 전래동요 활동의 효과를 총체적으로 분석하고, 이를 바탕으로 유아 전래동요 프로그램 개발을 위한 기초자료를 제시하는데 있다. 이를 위하여 2000년부터 2017년까지의 국내 학위논문 및 학술지 게재 논문 27편을 대상으로 랜덤효과모형을 적용하여 효과크기를 분석 한 결과, 전체 평균 효과크기는 1.19로 유아 전래동요 활동이 유아에게 미치는 효과가 매우 큰 것으로 나타났다. 종속변인에 따른 효과크기 차이 분석 결과, 통계적으로 유의미한 차이는 나타나지 않았으나 사회성발달에서 가장 큰 효과크기를 보였다. 조절변인별로 효과크기를 살펴본 결과, 실험집단 인원수가 26명 이상, 만 4세와 5세의 혼합연령 집단으로 구성, 실험처치 기간은 7-9주, 실험처치 횟수는 31회 이상, 언어활동과 연계된 전래동요 활동에서 효과크기가 가장 컸으며, 실험처치 기간과 횟수에 따라 통계적으로 유의미한 효과크기 차이가 나타났다.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of traditional children’s song activities by using Meta-analysis and to provide basic data for developing programs for those activities. For this purpose, the effect size of 27 selected studies published between 2000 and 2017 were computed while applying random effect model. The result of analysis shows average effect size of all traditional children’s song activities was 1.19 which means traditional children’s song activities for young children are highly effective. Though the difference of effect size depending on dependent variables was not statistically significant, social development was the highest scored variable in effect size. Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences depending on the duration and total number of treatments. The effect was higher when the size of experimental group member was ‘over 26’, the age of experimental group member was a mixture of 4 and 5 years olds, duration of experimentation was 7-9 weeks, the number of experimentation was more than 31 times, and traditional children’s song activities were associated with language activities.