Impacts of Learning Passport on Students in Educational Priority Area

• Main Authors: Wang,Cheng-Chong, 王政忠
• Other Authors: Jen,Chin-I
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30486788978703595088

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 99 === In order to reveal the effects of learning passport of S Junior High School, located in Nantou, Taiwan, which was characterized as educational priority school (referred as educationally disadvantaged school), the study investigated the regarding impacts on students in terms of learning performance and attitude. Moreover, factors that affected students’ selection of reinforcer in the token system, as a benefit of the learning passport, were under investigation. The target school in this study was marked by the Ministry of Education as the best institution among others for remarkable success in the Partners in Education Program (PIE) in 2009, in which the learning passport had been adopted for nine years. A total of 65 students in the 11th and 12th grades was drawn from the target school as the subjects of the study. Due to a limitation of the sampling, the analogy drawn from this study was not applied to other schools. A questionnaire was administered by the researcher, who is the teacher of the school, to subjects. The data was collected and analyzed by t test, one-way ANOVA and MANOVA. The major findings were as follows: 1. No significant difference was found in learning in terms of impacts of learning passport between students of different background, however, a highly positive impact was reflected in the study. 2. A significant difference was found in attitude between the 11th and 12th graders and students with different economic status, no significant difference was found between males and females and students of different academic achievement and family structure. 3. No significant difference was found in learning performance between students of different background. 4. A significant difference was found in target agents who impacted the selection of reinforcers between males and females and students of different academic achievement. 5. No significant difference was found in types of reinforcer selected by students of different background, however, amusement-reinforcers were students’ favorite while fashion-reinforcers were the disfavor for students of different background. 　　Based on the conclusions, the study provided some suggestions to the implementation and the manipulation of learning passport in S Junior High School to improve its effect and the recommendations for future studies were also included.