Assessment of Adventure Education to Improve High School Students the Life Effectiveness

碩士 === 台灣首府大學 === 休閒管理學系碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of “Adventure Education (AE)” on the life effectiveness of senior high school students. The study sampled 568 senior high school students in the Tainan district. The“Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ...

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Main Authors: Huang,Jung-Kuei, 黃榮貴
Other Authors: Lin,Chih-Peng
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7h34x5
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Summary:碩士 === 台灣首府大學 === 休閒管理學系碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of “Adventure Education (AE)” on the life effectiveness of senior high school students. The study sampled 568 senior high school students in the Tainan district. The“Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ)” is utilized as the tool for assessment. Pretest, posttest, and follow-up test were conducted to examine the effectiveness of implementation. Meanwhile, the SPSS 12.0 for Windows software was adopted to analyze the data. The statistic methods for analysis include Descriptive Statistics, Paired-sample T-Test, and effective size. After the analysis on the two-phase questionnaire, the main conclusions are as follows: According to the pre-posttest, Adventure Education has positive effects on enhancing senior high school students’ Life Effectiveness. For the results of the follow-up test, although there were some aspects not reaching significance, the average number was higher than the pretest. Adventure Education has positive effects on “the Life Effectiveness of senior high school students.” It can provide a fundamental guideline and help for senior high school students on their psychological development especially on independency and maturity. For each group, due to the limited time of the courses, the follow-up test did not show significant effects. As for the whole population, thanks to their high self confidence and psychological superiority, they can achieve excellent performance.