A Study on Learning Motivation, Parents’ Educational Attitude and Learning Satisfaction of the Art-Talented Students in Junior High Schools: Take Four Counties in Central Taiwan for Example

• Main Author: 陳聯鳳
• Other Authors: 陳怡慧
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51378736169425379880

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 特殊教育學系所 === 98 === The main purpose of this study is aimed to understand the relation among learning motivation, parents’ educational attitude and learning satisfaction of the art-talented students in junior high schools, including to realize the existing circumstances of learning motivation, parents’ educational attitude and learning satisfaction of the art-talented students in junior high schools, and to compare their differences between different individuals’ background variables. The research subjects were 460 art-talented students in junior high schools from Taichung county, Taichung city, Changhua county, and Nantou county. The questionnaire was applied as a research instrument, which is “The questionnaire of learning motivation, parents’ educational attitude and learning satisfaction of the art-talented students in junior high schools from four counties in central Taiwan”. 460 questionnaires were sent, and 439 of them were returned. Excluding the incomplete ones, there were 430 effective questionnaires. The data was analyzed by frequency distribution, average mean, standard deviation, T test, and One-Way ANOVA. Based on the result of the empirical study, the study concludes: 1. Art-talented students in junior high schools show high learning motivation. 2. Most art-talented students in junior high schools feel “authoritative” parents’ educational attitude. 3. Art-talented students in junior high schools show high learning satisfaction. They are the most satisfied with the teaching of art teachers, but the least satisfied with the equipments and environments of school. 4. About learning motivations, the male art-talented students in junior high schools showed higher self-efficacy than the female students. 5. About parents’ educational attitude, the male art-talented students in junior high schools felt more “authoritarian” and “neglectful” than the female students. 6. About parents’ educational attitude, the art-talented students with high social economic status in junior high schools felt more “indulgent” than the students with middle social economic status. 7. Most of art-talented students with different individuals’ background variables in junior high schools show not much significant difference among learning motivation, parents’ educational attitude and learning satisfaction. Finally, based on the results of this study, the researcher proposed some recommendations for education administration, school administrators, teachers, parents, and future researchers. Key words: art-talented students, learning motivation, parents’ educational attitude, and learning satisfaction