A STUDY ON THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE PARENTS IN CHOOSING SCHOOL FOR THEIR CHILDREN --TAKING THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS AS AN EXAMPLE

• Main Authors: CHANG CHAO-HUNG, 張兆鴻
• Other Authors: LIN SHIH-LING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05143968649955413191

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 教育領導與發展研究所 === 92 === The purpose of this study was to understand the factors considered by the parents of senior high school students in choosing a school for their children. The case studied was the school where the researcher is serving, and the questions explored were as follow: 1. The main factors considered by the parents in choosing this school. 2. The degree of teachers’ understanding on those factors considered by the parents in the Sacred Heart High School for Girls. 3. What are the teaching qualities and schooling effectiveness that parents care about? 4. Teachers’ understanding on parents’ desires on these qualities and effectiveness. 5. The suggestions on school management according to the factors considered by parents. The methodology used in this thesis was case study. The information collected included: 1) the archives of the school history, 2) the literature discussing the features of Catholic schools and the factors influencing parents’ choices in children’s schools, 3) the records of the interviews with main school leaders and faculty, 4) the questionnaire of the factors considered by the parents in choosing a school for their children. Literature analysis was used dealing with the first two parts of the collected information mentioned above. Statistic analysis, frequency and sequence, were used in the fourth part of the collected information. Then, the outcomes were cross analyzed with the data collected in the interviews. The findings of this study were as follow: 1. The main factors considered by the parents in choosing the Sacred Heart High School for Girls were “this is a girl school”, “life education in this school is said to be good”, “English is emphasized in this school”, “meet the basic academic aptitude test score required in this school”. 2. In the faculty’s point of view, the main factors influencing parents’ choices were “life education in this school is good”, “beautiful campus”, “this is a girl high school”, “English is emphasized in this school”. 3. The most important three teaching qualities that the parents cared most were “the moral education”, “whether their children are happy or not in school”, “the change of their children’s temperament”; and the top three items of schooling effectiveness were “the overall performance of student’s personality development”, “the overall performance of the student”, and “the ratio of success in applying college”. 4. In the faculty’s point of view, the most important three teaching qualities that the parents cared most were “the moral education”, “the change of their children’s temperament”, “students’ academic performance”, and the top three items of schooling effectiveness were “the overall performance of student’s personality development”, “the overall performance of the student and the professional performance of the teachers”, and “the ratio of success in applying college”. Moreover, this study showed that the features possessed by other Catholic schools did exist in the Sacred Heart High School for Girls. Teachers’ efforts on students’ “life education” won a common recognition and praise from parents, and became the key factor that attracting students to enroll in this school. Suggestions of school management were made in the last chapter according to the conclusions of this study.