| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 進修部暑期課程與教學碩專班 === 106 === This study aims to discuss that after receiving the nine-year geographic courses, how do the junior high school students in Taiwan perform in the Basic Competence Test through the quantitative analysis of their answers, and see how they perform in geographic competence.
The object of this study is the data of 5000 randomly-picked students who joined the Basic Competence Test from 2001 to 20013, and each data includes the answer, gender and region. To start the research, the researcher and other two in-service geography teachers selected and categorized the test questions, whose discriminations and difficulties were descriptively analyzed,then discuss the different performance of students with different gender through the independent sample T test. Then compared the performance of students from different regions through one-way analysis and Scheffé method. The results are as followed:
1. The proportion of different types of tests is not equal. The space-analyzed questions take the most part, the features of regions questions take the second place, the geographic skills take the third place and the enviornmental geographic questions take the least part.
2. The test is mainly combined with the knowledge questions and is lack of the attitude questions.
3. Gender makes no specific difference in geographic academic competence.
4. Males are better at space location, map reading, natural environment, world geography and calculation questions.
5. Females are better at situational description, cultural environment, and data-analysis questions.
6. Students from different regions have a huge difference on the performance of geographic competence. The urban students have a better academic competence.
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