A study of correlation between college students' club experience and their potential competence of employability

• Main Authors: HSU, YA-WEN, 許雅雯
• Other Authors: 張雪梅
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vyb66a

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系 === 97 === This study aims to explore and understand the relationship between college students’ club experiences and their competence of employability after graduation. The author discusses the effects of different background variables on club experience, employability, and employability of different club joining experience. In addition, the present study probes the relationship between the club learning experience and employability. The predictability of the employability is drawn from an analysis based on the background variables, and club experience. There are three parts in the questionnaire of the present study. The first part is personal information. The second one is club experience. The third one is college students’ self evaluation of competence of employability. Data are collected from 775 college students participating club activities in Taipei city and county while usable data are only from 759 students among these participants. Statistical analysis is conducted by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, SPSS Base 12.0 for Windows. The statistical methods include descriptive statistic, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product moment correlation and stepwise regression.The major findings of this study are as follows: 1.College students participating in clubs nearly agree that participation in clubs enhances club learning experiences through involving in clubs. 2.College students participating in “Service”, “Academic” property of club think they have significant higher competence of employability than those participating in no clubs. 3.College students involving in clubs think that they have obtained almost enough competence of employability. 4.Students with different gender, grade level, departments, weekly working hours of part-time job, experience of intern, accommodation circumstances, family socioeconomic status and other background variables will have different club experiences. 5.Students’ gender, grade, interest, weekly working hours of part-time job, experience of intern, accommodation circumstances, and other background variables will affect the aspects of competence for employability. 6.College students’ different competence for employability results from the number of different clubs involved, club participation in property, club participation in time allotment, as the highest positions, weekly hours to participate, club involvement, and so on. 7.Clubs learning experience of learning the psycho-motor skills, interpersonal relationships, leadership and self realization have a significant low positive correlation with each other. 8.Among club learning experiences, leadership plays the major role of explanation for competence of employability. Therefore, we provide some concrete suggestions based on the findings above for college students, school-related organizations, and the organizations of educational administration. Moreover, the study sheds new lights on further researches in terms of enhancing competence of employability for college students joining in clubs.