| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 工業教育與技術學系 === 93 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between vocational students’ participation in extra curricular activities and their academic achievements. The methodology used in this study was questionnaire survey. The population of the study was the full time student at vocational high school in Taiwan in 2004.
The samples consisted of 1200 students who were selected by disproportional stratified cluster random sampling techniques. The total number of usable sets of instrument was 1003 and the rate of the usable returned was 83.6%. The research instrument was the self developed questionnaire which was revised by scholars and tested by item analysis and faction analysis. The overall Cronbach α was .9472.Based on the statistic analysis and study results, the findings are summarized as follows:
1. The associations students participate in most often are in connection with sports. The associations which students participate have the least interest in are related to volunteer work and academic research.
2. Vocational students only attend club activities in prescribed time. They do not spend extracurricular time on them.
3. There are distinguished differences among this variable— gender, time spent on club activities and the number of activities in a week.
4. In terms of gender, girls take more enthusiastic attitude toward the club activities than boys. In terms of grades, the higher grades students are in, the higher expectations they place on the wishes to be club leaders.
5. Parents’ education background and family economy do not cause any effect on the degree of students’ participation.
6. There are no distinguished differences between parents’ education background and the following factors—moral, academic, practical and physical achievements.
7. There are obvious differences between students’ family economy and their moral, academic and physical achievements. However, family economy doesn’t have notable effect on their interpersonal relations, thinking models, and leisure learning.
8. In terms of the whole achievements, vocational students whose parents possess college degrees have better achievements.
9. This study shows a distinguished correlation between students’ participation in school associations and their academic achievement. The Pearson factor was .780. That is, the more time students are engaged in club activities, the higher academic achievements they have.
Based on the study result, some suggestions are proposed to be the reference materials of administrative organizations, schools, teachers, students, and further research.
|
|---|
