Abstract
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology states that the aim of disaster prevention
education is to equip students with “actions” related to disaster prevention. However, although
the efficacy scale for disaster prevention behavior in the event of a disaster has been developed as a scale
for questioning self-confidence in calm behavior, there is no scale of efficacy for appropriate disaster prevention
behavior, and the development of an evaluation scale is desired. Therefore, in this research, we
developed an evaluation scale for junior high school students focusing on the effectiveness of appropriate
disaster prevention actions in earthquakes, tsunamis, and heavy rains. The survey was conducted on 394
junior high school students using the evaluation scale. As a result of factor analysis of the question items,
“emergency behavior “ was composed of one factor. The α coefficient was .84, confirming the reliability. In
addition, as a result of analyzing the relationship with external criteria regarding the experience of disaster
education of students, the validity was confirmed. From these results, we considered the possibility of verifying
the effectiveness of disaster education and how to utilize it.
