Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship and their related factors: Findings from the ICCS 2009

• Main Author: 康慧先
• Other Authors: 劉秀嫚
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vzuaa8

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系 === 102 === The purposes of this study were to understand Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship and their related factors. The target data base was the International Civic and Citizenshi Edication Study (ICCS) contained 5,167 Taiwanese 8th graders and 2,367 teachers to investigate the relationship among the antecedents which referred to student characteristics, the processes which referred to student socialization and learning, and the students’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship. Descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, and hierarchical multiple regression were conducted to analyze the data using SPSS 21.0 for Windows. The major findings are listed as followings. I.The socres of Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship are significantly higher than theoretical means, and it shows that the students’ attitudes were positive and enthusiastic. II.In terms of the antecedent variables, the factor “home background” shows the significant difference in students’ supports for the basic democratic values, perceptions of the conventional citizenship, and perceptions of the social-movement related citizenship. As to the factor “student characteristics”, there is the significant difference only in students’ perceptions of the social-movement related citizenship, and it also shows that females’ scores are higher than males’. III.In terms of the process variables, except for “community civic engagement”, the rest of the student socialization and learning factors are all significantly positive correlated with Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship. The factor “home background” is also significantly positive correlated with Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship. However, there is a significantly positive correlation only between “teachers’ confidence in teaching methods” and Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship. And there is a partial significantly correlation between “teachers’ assessment” and Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship. IV.After controlling the antecedent variables, the results of the hierarchical multiple regression analyses show that the process variables are all significant in predicting Taiwanese 8th graders’ attitudes toward democracy and citizenship.