| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班 === 95 === Abstract
The purpose of this study aimed to understand the studying motivation, learning needs and employment expectancy for the students of the Department of Recreation Business Management at De Lin Institute of Technology and also to investigate if the variant results among the studying motivation, learning needs, and employment expectancy were the functions of students’ background variables such as gender, age, class, academic system, and previous job experience. The subjects of this survey included the graduates, who are currently engaged in the recreation business, and the students, who were enrolled at the second semester of the 95th academic year, from the Department of Recreation Business Management at De Lin Institute of Technology. This study was conducted with a questionnaire survey and the interviews with the subjects. The collected data was then analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA. The results from the survey were concluded as following:
1. The overall subjects were primarily motivated for enrollment, in addition to their interests, by the promising prospects of recreation business management and the subsequent popularity of such college departments, where they desired the expertise for future job employment. The subjects have shown a high extent of autonomy for enrollment choices as indicated by the insignificant influences from some important other persons.
2. The learning needs centered on the main concern for the future job employment. The subjects regarded the internship, practices, and the practice courses as essential, courses involved in social interactions of personal relationship and courtesy as important; however, they showed low needs toward the theoretical or lecturing seminars courses.
3. Most of the subjects expressed their job expectancy to office duty and positioning in the middle ranks. They set their priority for the work locations as those which offer interior, comfort, security, and trend. This finding indicated that the subjects were reluctant to bear pressure, responsibilities, hardship, or risks from the work field.
4. As for the relations among the examined variables in this study, three significant correlations were found in this survey:
a. the students with distinctive age groups, classes, and prior work experience showed significant difference in extrinsic studying motivation;
b. the students from different classes showed significantly distinctive intrinsic studying motivation;
c. the students of different genders and from different classes showed significantly different conception about the required professional courses.
Based on the findings from this survey, some suggestions can be made for the curriculum of Recreation Business Management at De Lin. The major studying motivation can be highlighted for the recruit publicity; the opinions from the students and suggestions from the interviewees should be accommodated into the course planning in the new academic year; the school resources should be well utilized to arrange the intern practice locations for the students such as the affiliated Caesar Hotel and the well-connected Wu Lai Spring; more professional experts should be recruited to join the department faculty according to the school middle and long term goals in order to provide the students with the optimal knowledge for the occupational expertise and thus lay solid foundation for the continual development for the Recreational Business Management Department at De Lin.
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