The Understanding and Practice of Secondary Vocational Education among Junior High School Teachers in Pingtung County

• Main Authors: Kang, Fu-Hsi, 康福熙
• Other Authors: Wu, Ya-Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08809935242687909529

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 技職教育研究所 === 104 === The purposes of this study are to explore the current status of the understanding and the practice about secondary vocational education among junior high school teachers in Pingtung County, to investigate the difference between the understanding and the practices according to the teachers’ different backgrounds, and to examine the correlation between the inderstanding and the practice. The subjects of this study are junior high school teachers in Pingtung County, who filled out “The questionnaire of the understanding and practices of secondary vocational education among junior high school teachers” made by the researcher; 338 questionaires were administered, and 326 of them were valid. The data of this questionnaire were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-tests, one-way analysis of variance, and the multiple regression analysis. And the findings are as follows: The findings are as follows: 1. The level of junior high school teachers’ understanding about secondary vocational education was moderately high, with the highest level of understanding of “the technical education in junior high school.” 2. The level of junior high school teachers’ practices about secondary vocational education was moderately high, with the highest level of practice in “encouraging students to attend secondary vocational education.” 3. There were partially significant differences between the understanding of junior high school teachers with different sexes, ages, the secondary education experiences, job positions, administrative positions, their school scales. 4. There were partially significant differences between the practice of junior high school teachers with different the highest education, the secondary education experiences, teaching subjects, job positions, administrative positions. 5. Among all dimensions of the teachers’ understanding about secondary vocational education,” vocational high school” had the most powerful predictability of the practice among secondary vocational education. Based on the findings, some suggestions were provided for the education authorities, teachers in junior high school, and future studies. Keywords: secondary vocational education, understanding, practices.