| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 經濟學研究所 === 100 === The analysis of this paper is based on the first wave of high school sample, which were collected by the research project “Taiwan Educational Panel Survey (TEPS)”, to examine both clubs involvement effect on academic achievement of high school students, and club categories differentials among the clubs involvement effect. Clubs are classified into 5 groups: Student Organization, Service, Sport, Academic and Art.
The research applies Ordinary Least Squares method to examine clubs involvement effect. The empirical results suggest that clubs participation has positive effect upon students’ academic achievement. Furthermore, we distinguish different club categories and find that all categories have significant effects except Sport club. Besides, Student Organization club even has a negative effect on students’ academic achievement among all categories. However, OLS estimation is unreliable because of the endogeneity problem, and our main explanatory variables are the outcomes of self-selection. Therefore, we use instrument variables and Two Stage Least Square method to obtain reliable estimation.
Results provide evidence that no matter which category of clubs students join, attending clubs has remarkable effect on students’ academic achievement. In our analysis, Sport club and Service club have negative effect while the rest of categories have positive effect. Although the effect of Academic club is remarkable and the magnitude of the effect cannot be neglected, it can be only interpreted as a local treatment effect for some specific samples, not the average effect.
This study is along with the related literature and proves that there is a strong relationship between clubs involvement and academic achievement. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to explore and realize themselves from attending clubs. We suggest that the study could provide more information for establishing the concrete policy on diversified and adaptive development of students in K-12 scheme.
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