| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系在職進修碩士班 === 100 === This study is aimed to explore the current status of college students in northern Taiwan in their experience of service learning in student clubs and employability. Through the comparisons of employment abilities in different demographic variables and service learning experience, the powers of different background variables and service learning experience in predicting the student’s employability are further investigated. In this study, college students joining service learning in student clubs in eight universities in northern Taiwan area were recruited for survey. The results and suggestions from the survey can serve as references for consultancy and policy making in related schools and educational administration divisions. From a pool of 800 copies of questionnaire survey, 668 copies (83.5%) returned. After the deletion of incomplete questionnaires, 650 copies (81.25%) were effective.
The data obtained from the survey were further examined by descriptive statistics, t tests, one way ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis in SPSS 19.0 Chinese version. The following findings had been attained from the survey.
1. Current status of college students’ participation of service learning: most college students took part in the social welfare organizations (70.2%); 74.6% joined service learning that can directly contact the people they help; 60.3% had been students-in-charge in their service learning experience; 67.4% had the experience of writing final report; 88.3% had educational training before their service learning class.
2. Opinions of the employability of students who join the service learning: college students consider that they are equipped with employability in personnel communication, emotional management, and cooperation.
3. Differences of employability dimensions in total employability, work and living ability, and personal management ability, and team work ability in terms of the subjects’ demographic and participation of service learning:
(1) Total employability: there exist significant differences of total employability in terms of subject’s gender, grades, volunteer’s experience (time of service learning, service learning combined with general courses or professional service learning mode). In participation of service learning, significant differences were found in properties of service learning activity, including the types of service learning (academic consultancy, campus student club, collecting sales receipts for organizations), being student-in-charge for service learning, writing the final report, and having education training.
(2) Work and living ability: subjects’ grades, volunteer’s experience (time of service learning, service learning combined with general courses or professional service learning mode) will cause significant differences in work and living ability. In participation of service learning, service organization, service property, service type, being student-in-charge, and educational training will result in different work and living abilities.
(3) Personal management ability: Volunteer’s experience (labor education and service learning combined with general courses or professional service learning mode) will cause significant differences in personal management ability. In participation of service learning, service property, service type (academic consultancy, campus student club, and collecting sales receipts for organizations), being student-in-charge, writing final report, and educational training will result in different personal management abilities.
(4) Team work ability: Among demographic variables of subjects, gender, grades, major, volunteer experience (service time, and service learning combined with general courses or professional service learning mode), and family economic status will cause significant differences in team work ability. In participation of service learning, service property, service type (holding activity, and collecting sales receipts for organizations), being student-in-charge, and educational training will cause different team work abilities.
4. Predicting college student’s employability from their demographic variables and participation experience in service learning:
(1) Overall, four variables can be used to predict total employability effectively; five can be used to predict work and living ability; four can be used to predict personal management ability; eight variables can be used to predict team work employability.
(2) In subject’s demographic variables, the volunteer experience (service learning combined with general courses or professional service learning mode ) is best suitable for the prediction of employability in work and living and personal management dimensions.
(3) In participation of service learning, being student-in-charge variable is most suitable for the prediction of total employability and team work ability.
According to the results obtained, suggestions were offered in this study for the references of service learning regarding college students, schools, and educational divisions concerned as well as for future work in this domain.
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