| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 教育行政研究所 === 106 === This study aimed to compare and analysis of the academic performances of technological university students from different types of college admission, including examination and placement, recommendation and screening, special achievement-based admission (including special achievement and screening-based admission), application of high school.
Based on literature review, this study conducted a secondary data analysis of 489 students’ academic performances from 8 departments of Agriculture College. The data were classified into three categories of courses: required subject, elective subject and overall courses. The SPSS 20 statistical software was applied to analyze data for descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA to compare and analysis of the academic performances of students from different types of college admission.
The findings were as follows:
1. In terms of the whole Agricultural College, students admitted from application of high school have better academic achievements in different subjects than students from the other types of college admission.
2. In general, the students admitted from recommendation and screening performed better in the required subjects and the overall subjects than the students from four-year technology college’s joint registration and placement.
3. In Department of Plant Industry, Department of Aquaculture, Department of Wood Science and Department of Design, there were statistically significant differences in academic performances between students from different types of college admission
4. In the Department of Forestry, Department of Biological Science and Technology, Department of Animal Science, Department of Plant Medicine and Department of Food Science, there were no statistically significant differences in academic performances of overall courses between students from different types of college admission.
5. In Department of Wood Science and Design, students from application of high school had lower grades than students from recommendation and screening.
In Department of Animal Science, students from recommendation and screening based admission earned the lowest scores in the overall courses than students from the other types of college admission.
In conclusion, there is statistically significant difference between the academic performances of students at agricultural college from different types of college admission. The findings can contribute to improve students’ academic performance by creating more supportive programs of curriculum planning, study guidance and student recruitment.
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