| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育學系 === 93 === Abstract
The purposes of the study were to explore the current state of theses from technological and vocational education related institutes in the last decade (1994-2003) in Taiwan. To understand the conditions of academic theses and study existing in the technological and vocational education related institutes in the last decade, The researcher have targeted and conducted analysis on 15 university departments or graduate schools, namely, National Taiwan Normal University, National Chunghua University of Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, National Hsin-Chu Teachers College, National Taipei University of Technology, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, National University of Tainan, National Taipei College of Nursing, National Pingtung University of Science & Technology and National Yunlin University of Science & Technology etc. Total of +1325 theses on technological and vocational education were also been analyzed.
The researcher conducted cross-analysis based on various study methods, research paradigms, research instruments, development of research instruments and study targets adopted by researchers. Data were gathered through “Registration Table of Content Analysis of Academic Theses from Technological and Vocational Education Related Institutes” developed by the researcher. In addition, SPSS 12.0 was also adopted to conduct statistical analysis on frequency, percentage and chi-square test. Main conclusions of this study are as follows:
1. Study subjects related to technological and vocational education in the last decade has focused mostly on “teaching methods” 17.7％, followed by “curriculum” 8.5％ as the next and lastly, “teaching materials” 8.2％.
2. Research paradigms adopted by technological and vocational education related studies have focused on Quantitative Research Method which comprised 68.4% of the literature.
3. Research instruments adopted by technological and vocational education related studies have opted for “questionnaire survey” 56.6% mostly with “experimental design” 12.3% and “interview methods” 10.1% as researchers’ second and last choices.
4. Quotations and modifications have had a larger percentage than instruments developed by researchers themselves with quotations and modifications from “document/file” as the only exception.
5. Target subjects selected by researchers on technological and vocational education related study haven’t shown any significant changes with “students” 37.6% and “teachers” 19.2% remained to be their favorite choices during the last decade.
Based on the findings and conclusion of this study, the researcher made some concrete suggestions for the relative researchers on technological and vocational education as well as for the further studies.
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