Research on Parent Involvement with school affairs of Elementary Schools in Taichung City

• Main Authors: Yin-Hua Chen, 陳櫻花
• Other Authors: Shih-Chang Hou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67008654807619357671

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 教育學系 === 102 === The purpose of the study was mainly to understand the current situation of elementary school teachers’ perception towards parent involvement with school affairs and discuss the difference of perception between different backgrounds from elementary school teachers. Secondly, understand the value from the teachers to parent participation of school affairs and discuss the difference between different background teachers. Questionnaire survey was adopted in this study. After literature survey, the researcher developed the Questionnaire of Parent Involvement with School Affairs in Taichung City. Clusters were randomly sampled from public elementary school teachers in Taichung city. There were 611 valid questionnaires out of 670 ones. The data obtained from the inventories are analyzed by mean, standard deviation, t-test, and ANOVA. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. The perception of the teachers to the parents involved in school affairs was intermediate degree. 2. The perceptions of male teachers were higher than female teachers when it comes to parents’ service at school, self-development and learning at school. 3. The perceptions of parent involvement were high for the schools below 12 classes and the teachers graduated from Normal University or Teachers University. 4. Teachers from Central District perceived high with parent involvement at home. Meanwhile, teachers from Coast District perceived high in home-school communication and participation in school activities. 5. The teachers valued intermediate high to the parent involvement with schools affairs. 6. The teachers who are younger than 30 years old, serve less than 5 years and at the school which is less than 12 class have positive value to parent involvement. 7. Teachers come from the schools, which have less than 12 classes and 25-48 classes have negative value on parent involvement. Finally, the researcher also made some suggestions for the authority, school administration, parents, teachers and further researchers.