Current Status of Utilizing Instructional Media in Kaohsiung County Junior School Teachers

• Main Authors: WANG, YING-CHOO, 王英州
• Other Authors: Yeig Chn
• Format: Others
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63384766841412015976

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 工業科技教育學系 === 91 === The purpose of this study is to understand the current status of Kaohsiung County junior high school teachers utilizing instructional media, to conclude the problems encountered during implementation and teachers’ suggestions, to anailze the related factors, and further to explore the effective strategies for teachers’ utilizing instructional media. The study was carried out through literature reviews and questionnaires on Kaohsiung County junior high school teachers who were sampled from 12 large, medium, and small schools. Totally 158 questionnaires were developed, and 139 were returned validly. The statistical analyses were made by frequency table, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test, and one-way analysis of variance. The results of the analysis are as follows: 1. Junior high school teachers utilizing instructional media were influenced by school environment and their personal media backgrounds. 2. Integrating traditional media with computers as instructional tools is not widespread at most of Kaohsiung County junior high schools. 3. Lack of software and the usages are the main obstacles of utilizing instructional media. 4. The main task for Kaohsiung junior high schools to improve media utilization is to strengthen the management of instruction media. 5. To establish a fully or regional instruction media department is the best way to solve the problems of using instructional media at Kaohsiung junior high schools. According to these results, some suggestions were offered to educational organizations, schools, educators, and further studies.