A study on the feasibility of implementing Microsoft Future School in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chien-Tung Chen, 陳建東
• Other Authors: Ying-Hsin Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08892063779923563940

博士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 教育學系 === 98 === The purpose of this study was mainly to explore the feasibility of implementing Microsoft Future School in Taiwan in order to understand the perceptions and perspectives of school principals and teachers on promoting Microsoft Future School in the educational field. The research was conducted in two stages. In the questionnaire survey, the primary research subjects were senior high, junior high and elementary school principals and teachers from Taipei city and Kaohsiung city in Taiwan. Two hundred schools were sampled. Four participants were tested in each school. A total of eight hundred participants, including two hundred principals and six hundred teachers were selected as participants. A self-designed questionnaire on the feasibility of implementing Microsoft Future School in Taiwan was adopted as a research tool. The data collected from the questionnaire investigation were subjected to mean and standard variation analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple stepwise regression with SPSS for Windows 10.0 computer statistics package. The second stage was to conduct case intervies, the research was carried out with semi-structured questionnaires to interview indicative cases from schools that were promoting Microsoft Future School. The interviewees were from several representative schools including senior high, junior high, and elementary schools. The schools involved included Zhong-Lun senior high school and Li-Shan senior high school in Taipei city. Da-Yi junior high school, Cian-Jhen junior high school, Zuo-Ying elementary school and Bo-Ai elementary school in Kaohsiung City were also involved. A total of eighteen subjects, comprising of six school principals, six chiefs, six teachers, were interviewed in order to get a further in-depth understanding about the perception and perspective of school principals and teachers on the feasibility of promoting Microsoft Future School. Based on quantitative questionnaires and qualitative case interviews, the following findings were discovered: 1. School principals and teachers from different levels of schools expressed a better future expectancy than current perception on promoting Future School in Taiwan and generally considered that schools’ideas and approaches in promoting Future School are feasible. 2. On the aspect of promoting Microsoft Future School in Taiwan in different levels of schools, regardless of current perception or future expectancy, school principals on the whole obtained a higher mean than school teachers. Comparing different variables, either on current perception or future expectancy, school principals scored highest on information equipment, while teachers scored highest on information literacy. 3. In accordance with the variables of demography, principals and teachers from different levels of schools didn’t reach a significant difference as a whole about current perception. However, they did show a significant difference on the aspects of information literacy, e-learning, technology leadership, school construction, information equipment, knowledge management, and curriculum planning. On the aspect of future expectancy, principals and teachers from different levels of schools didn’t show a significant difference as a whole, but did reach a significant difference on information literacy, e-learning, technology leadership, school construction, information equipment, knowledge management, curriculum planning, future concept, and innovative management. 4. On the variable of different school backgrounds, principals and teachers from different levels of schools, despite principals showing a significant difference in different school categories and teachers showing a significant difference in different school class numbers on current perception as a whole, all the remainder showed no significant differences about current perception and future expectancy. 5. The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Analyses among different levels of school teachers’ perceptions, principals’ leadership in promoting Future School and teaching levels of teachers from a certain school showed a significant positive correlation among all the variables. 6. Regarding the regression analyses of promoting Microsoft Future School and school principals’ leadership toward teachers’ teaching, the predictive variable had a positive predictive power toward teachers’ teaching aspect that reached a significant level, including information literacy, creative teaching, technology equipment, and e-learning. 7. Principals and teachers from different levels of schools generally generally had a profound understanding about the viewpoints and realizations of promoting future school that Microsoft Future School was not only a theory but also an achievable possibility. It was not only an infrastructure but also centered upon the change of curriculum and teaching. 8. The obstruction both junior and senior high schools to promote Microsoft Future School is mainly from parents and teachers. The former feel concerned about the proportion of students entering schools of a higher grade. The latter worry about increasing teaching workload. After putting Microsoft Future School into practice, the proportion of students entering schools of a higher grade can be effectly raised and teachers are willing to participate in the project actively.