| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系 === 104 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the current development and promotion of featured schools among public elementary schools in Taiwan. The effects of promoting featured schools for students and the correlations among related variables were examined.
The research adopted questionnaire survey, and the sample population consisted of elementary school educators in Taiwan. The questionnaire was administered to principals, directors/section chiefs, teachers, and administrative staffs based on stratified random sampling. From the 504 questionnaires administered, 364 valid responses were obtained, resulting in a valid response rate of 72.22%. The instrument was a self-developed “Questionnaire on Development of Featured Elementary Schools”. Through expert evaluation and pretest analysis, according to the results of item analysis, and factor analysis, the final questionnaire was built. The methods to collect data were including descriptive statistics, independent-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and LSD multiple comparisons. The findings are as following:
1.In terms of the current development of featured elementary schools, the best performance was seen in the aspect of “learning areas”.
2.Overall, “establishing student clubs to develop school feature” was given the highest score.
3.Among the background variables for featured schools, “current position”, “seniority”, “school region”, and “source of school features” significantly affected the educators’ responses.
(1) The performance of the whole featured schools, the position of “principals” is superior to “officer/leader” and “teacher”. The school scale is from schools with “fewer than 12 classes” gave higher scores than those from schools with “more than 49 classes”.
(2) In the “use of resources”, the educators who have service experience within five years are higher than those who are between 11 to 20 years and above 21 years in the characteristics of school performance. The characteristics of school performance in northern elementary schools are higher than central and southern ones.
(3) The featured resources of the school in “project team”, “public resources”, “curriculum resources”, “resources use”, “learning areas”, “leadership and management”, “curriculum model”, “support participation”, “campus creating”, and “overall scale” reached significant differences. According to the performance in developing featured schools, the school featured in “nature landscapes” are scored highly then the ones featured in “school building“, “created theme by school” and “student clubs”. On the other hand, “community characteristics product” in performance is also superior to the “created theme by school”. First, educators whose school features come from “natural landscapes” gave higher scores than those whose school features come from “school building“, “the school to create a theme” and “student clubs”. Second, the community product characteristics in performance are superior to the creative theme in school.
Based on research results, this study proposed suggestions to the EDB counties, education agents and future researchers respectively.
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