A Study on the Relation between School Factors and Senior High School Students’ Academic Ability—An Analysis of Data from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS)

• Main Authors: CHEN YING SHAN, 陳瑛姍
• Other Authors: 游進年
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19483340814770962198

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relation between school factors and senior high school students’ academic ability. In order to answer the research questions, the study used the documentary analysis method to collect the pertinent data. The target data base was Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS), adopted questionnaires from wave I of the public version, filled out by one selected group of senior high/ vocational school students and their parents. The subjects of the TEPS are the whole sampling students in the second year of senior high of the nation in 2001. The number of effective samples was 5,940. The acquired data was analyzed by statistical methods, such as descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation analysis, and multiple stepwise regression, etc. According to literature review and the empirical analysis results, some conclusions were listed as follows: 1. The high school students were satisfied with school factors. 2. Compared with the male students, the female students gave higher ranking on school factors. 3. Public senior high schools were superior to the private ones in terms of school factors. 4. The students’ perception of school factors didn’t have significant difference by their socioeconomic status. 5. Academic ability of male students was better than that of female students. 6. There was a difference among the academic ability of students in diverse regions. 7. The high school students’ academic ability was similar in terms of the socioeconomic status. 8. High school factors and students’ academic ability were positively correlated. 9. High school factors was a limited predictor to students’ academic ability. Based on the research conclusion, some suggestions were offered to the educational authorities, senior high school educators and further researchers respectively.