Student perspectives on the learning effects of Internships: A study of Taiwan food and beverage high student

• Main Authors: Ya-ling Wang, 王雅玲
• Other Authors: Chaang-Iuan Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00336367333772653661

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 休閒事業管理系碩士班 === 98 === Internship has been widely adopted as a component for educating vocational high school students in the field of food and beverage management. The three stakeholders, including: students, educators (academic institutions) and employers, play important roles in the implementation of internship. From the viewpoint of students, this study examined the perceptions of internship and the associated factors with those perceptions. The study subjects focused on the 12th grade students who took the core course in off-campus internship. It employed survey research methods for data collection. All the participants completed the perceptions of internship and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory. A total of 291 usable responses were obtained. The research results revealed that students had different perceptions regarding student and employer issues. In particular, there were differences concerning the personal characteristics among the student groups, such as GPA, part-timed working experiences and learning style preferences. In addition, it indicated that most of the students (56.7%) fell into Kolb’s Diverger categories, more than one quarter (26.8%) labeled Accommodator and a small group as Assimilator (11%) and Converger (5.5%) respectively. Using one-way ANOVA with learning style as the independent (grouping) variable and the perceptions on the internship course as the dependent variable, the result suggested there were significant differences in perceptions between learning styles. LSD’s test confirmed that underlying effect responsible for it causing the difference between Assimilator/Converger and the other two categories. The implications and future research directions were recommended at the end to conclude this study.