The study aims to explore the current conditions of teachers¡¦ attitudes toward teachers¡¦ professional evaluation in Kaohsiung junior high schools, and to apply the results of the study to provide suggestions to be references in the future. The study was conducted by means of questionnaire survey with ¡§Questionnaire on ¡§Teachers¡¦ Attitudes toward Teacher Evaluation in Kaohsiung Junior High Schools.¡¨ 600 teachers were randomly sampled from 34 public junior high schools in Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City. Among the collected questionnaires, 529 were valid, yielding a return rate of 88%. The collected data was analyzed by statistical methods, including mean, Standard Deviation, t-Test, one-way ANOVA. Based on the analyzed results, the followings were concluded: 1. The evaluation purposes are to help teachers improve their teaching approach and promote their professional development. The teachers of different positions and school locations have different opinions about the evaluation purposes. 2. The best evaluation method is self-evaluations by the teachers themselves. The teachers of different teaching course subjects, years of expericences, and positions have significant difference on the evaluation method. 3. The best criteria of teacher evaluation is ¡§study and learning¡¨. The teachers of different background have different opinions about the criteria of teacher evaluation. 4. The best methods of evaluation data collection are from class observations and using the teacher self-evaluation sheets. The teachers of different teaching course subjects, years of experiences, and positions have different opinions about the methods of evaluation data collection. 5. An ideal application of evaluation results is to provide teachers with a mean of improving themselves. The teachers of different positions and school locations have significant difference on the application of evaluation results. According to the conclusions mentioned above, a number of suggestions were proposed to the educational authorities, teacher training institutions, junior high school teachers and future educational researchers.

The purposes of this study are to explore the phenomena and the methods of Teacher Professional Evaluation (TPE) of junior high school in Kaohsiung City, including the positive efficiency from the TPE, the problems while practicing TPE, and the importance of teachers¡¦ opinions upon the contents of TPE, like appraisal indicators, methods to implement, ways to evaluate, procedures, application of results, opinions upon repeated evaluation, and evaluators. Besides exploring the differential reasons, some related and practical suggestions are also provided in this study to raise the effects of PTE and to develop the teachers¡¦ professional growth. Based on the literature review on teacher performance evaluation of elementary and junior high school in America, England and Australia, this study depends on ¡§Questionnaire upon the Phenomena and the Development of TPE in Junior High School.¡¨ According to the valid sample of 555 respondents of the junior high school teachers in Kaohsiung (72% respondents of 768 questionnairs), the data were dealt with by the software SPSS 8.0 and analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, T-Test, GLM-General Factoril, Pearson Product-moment Correlation, and Chi-Square Test. In this study, ten conclusions are obtained as the following: 1.Junior high school teachers who have been in service for more than 26 years, graduated from university or college, or serve concurrently as directors of offices give more consent to the importance of appraisal indicators. 2.Junior high school teachers highly admit the importance of evaluation contents, especially the class management, the service enthusiasm, the communication with students¡¦ parents and the ability of student counseling. 3.Junior high school teachers pay less approval to the continuous evaluation. 4.Male teachers, teachers in service for one to five years, teachers serving concurrently as directors of offices, teachers in private schools, or teachers in the schools whose number of classes is under 60 highly estimate the positive efficiency of TPE. 5.Almost half the teachers affirm the positive efficiency of TPE, particularly the aspect of teacher professional growth. 6.TPE is more difficult to implement upon the teachers who graduate from teachers¡¦ university or college, the teachers who are in service in public schools, or the teachers in the schools whose number of classes is over 61. 7.More than half the teachers think it very difficult to establish the appraisal indicators. 8.The positive efficiency of evaluation has negative corelation with the difficulty of facing problems. 9.Most teachers accept the ways of evaluation as the following: all the teachers should be evaluated, periodic evaluation depends on necessity, domain representatives participate in the evaluation, and teachers carry on self-examination. 10.Methods of evaluation in private schools are multiple and more efficient. KEY WORDS: Junior High School,Profession,Teacher Professional Evaluation