A Study of Factors influencing Parental choice in the nearby Community''s secondary School －Examples of the Learning Community on the Left Bank in Taipei County

• Main Authors: Chin-Chung Yang, 楊金川
• Other Authors: Ming-Fa Shih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40967297290160902427

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 教育研究所碩士在職專班 === 93 === Since 2001 the government has implemented a policy to promote the connection of secondary school with their community in order to encourage the student to enter schools nearby. Based on this educational policy, this research wants to find out main factors influencing parental choice in the nearby community school. Methods of literature analysis and questionnaire survey are used to achieve the research purpose .A self-constructed questionnaire was applied to 698 effective samples and relevant statistical method of the mean , percentage , chi square criterion , factor analysis , T-test , one-way ANOVA , product-moment correlation were used to analysis the data. The results of the research are listed in the following: 1. The willingness of parental choice in nearby secondary school are as follows： (1) 75.6% of parents'' are willing to choice community''s secondary schools. (2) The parents with higher social-economic status tend not to choose the nearby schools. (3) The parental choice mainly focuses on the public school. 2. The major influential factors to choose the school are the environment of study, academic achievement and school management. 3. Five important information sources to make the school choice are in the following: Visiting the community''s schools, discussing with the junior high school teachers, reading the enrollment materials dispatched from the school, surfing the websites of the schools and participating in the open fair for new students. 4. Six relevant measures from the government to promote the connection of the secondary schools with their community and to increase the enrollment percentage from the local junior high schools are as follows: (1) to subsidize the school teaching facilities, (2) to stipulate the enrolling number for the local junior high school students, (3) to offer the local graduates’ guarantee that the local community universities and colleges will accept them based on an agreement, (4) to offer the channel for the local school graduates to enroll in the secondary school without entrance examination , (5) to offer scholarships for the local students and (6) to set up flexible transferring mechanism among secondary schools.