Abstract
This study aims to test the effectiveness of the International Child Development Program (ICDP) to improve teachers’ attitudes toward refugee students in Rohingya Refugee Camp, Bangladesh. The goal of using ICDP is to increase a positive attitude toward refugee children by promoting good teacher-student relationships. This study used a pre-post-test with one group (47 teachers participating in ICDP training) experimental design. In this one group study participants completed a teachers’ attitudes toward refugee children scale developed for this study before and after the ICDP training. Data was analyzed by using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test with the statistical measure of p-value and effect size. In general, the results showed that ICDP has a small impact on the teachers’ attitudes toward Rohingya children (d =.203). In particular, female teachers showed more positive attitudes than male teachers based on ICDP training. However, based on the small effect size, no firm conclusions can be made yet whether the ICDP is an effective teacher training program to reduce child negligence and to promote a positive attitude towards children in vulnerable situations due to limitations of this study using small sample size and a standardized measurement scale. Further study should be conducted to draw firm conclusions and generalize the results by using large numbers of sample and psychometrically sound attitude scales.