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The purposes of this study are illustrated as follows: to investigate the current situation of demography, internet pornography experience, sexual attitude and behavior among senior high school students, to exam the difference and correlation of those students¡¦demography which is represented on internet pornography experience and sexual attitude, and to try to find out the variables of pornography experience and population, which could be used to predict senior high school students¡¦ sexual attitude in such environment which internet pornography overloads. The data gathered from questionnaires are analyzed by statistical methods such as frequency distributions, mean deviation, reliability analysis, factor analysis, chi-square test, t-test of dependent sample, ANOVA of dependent sample, Pearson¡¦s correlation, and the multiple regression. Results and discussion are summarized as follows: 1. There are 63.7% senior high school students have touch the internet for 5 years, and the degree increase by the years that they touched. They usually talk and make friend on the internet(78.7%) . 2. There are 71.1% senior high school students have touch the internet pornography, and that is they main way to connect the pornography. They touched it for vagary, and they touched it for one hour a day, in nine in the night to twelve in the noon. They touched it at their home. 3. The senior high school students¡¦ sexual attitude is between agree and disagree. 4. There are 10.5% students have sexual behavior, which gather 15 to 17 years old. The contraception they usually took is condom. 5. Sex, school, talking about sexual issues with friend have significant different to internet pornography experience. 6. Sex, grade, school, the school location have significant different to sexual attitude. 7.Internet pornography has different to sexual attitude. Without connecting internet pornography, connecting less time, and taking disagree option, the sexual attitude are more guard. 8.Internet pornography experience and sexual attitude have lower negative correlation. 9.Internet pornography has different to sexual behavior. The more connecting, the more frequency, and the more time cost the students have, their sexual behavior are deeper. 10.Internet pornography experience and sexual behavior have lower correlation. 11.Population and internet pornography information to sexual attitude can validly predict 12% senior high school students¡¦ sexual attitude. Population and internet pornography information to sexual behavior can validly predict 12.6% senior high school students¡¦ sexual behavior.

This study assessed the differences between teachers'opinions and students' responses regarding the influence of clothing on adolescents' decisions to participate in social activities. Survey methodology was used with the final samples consisting of 336 students and 140 teachers who were drawn from six high schools located in economically depressed and non-depressed areas of the state of Oregon. All of the predominantly female students were enrolled in home economics classes. Their ages ranged from thirteen to twenty years with the mode being 16 years. The teachers taught a variety of subjects that spanned from science and math to liberal arts. The majority of the teachers had been working in their profession for eleven or more years. On the student and teacher questionnaires the question was asked why students did not participate in social events or school extracurricular activities. The following response choices were listed on both questionnaires: a) My parents will not let me go; b) I do not have the "right" clothes to wear; c) I don't have enough money; d) I really do not have any interest in going. On the teachers' questionnaire two additional reasons were listed: e) I do not have transportation; f) It conflicts with my work. A 7-point Likert type scale was used. The statistical treatment of data included descriptive statistics, t-test calculations and qualitative analysis. It was hypothesized that feelings of perceived clothing deprivation (not having "the right clothes to wear") would be the most important reason that students do not attend a social event. This hypothesis was based on previous literature that suggested clothing is very important during the adolescent stage of development. Contrary to this hypothesis, the students' mean scores revealed that not having the "right clothes" was the least important reason for not attending of the four reasons listed. As hypothesized, teachers rated not having "the right clothes to wear" as the least important factor for students deciding not to attend a social event. This hypothesis was exploratory in nature. One of the most important findings of this study was that teachers and students responded in the same pattern. This was not what was expected, but it was conceptually interesting to know they think alike rather than differently. / Graduation date: 1991

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As access to technology increases, educators must continue to study how to best integrate these resources to help close the writing achievement gap and prepare students for college and careers. This survey explores the levels of technology use in English classrooms at diverse, low-income high schools in Texas where 70 percent or more students are identified as economically disadvantaged. This study examines how teachers' levels of implementation relate to teachers' age, years of teaching experience, highest degree earned, and the type of school. Teachers completed an online survey indicating their curriculum and instructional practices, their personal computer use, and their implementation of writing in the classroom. Based on these results, follow-up interviews were conducted with teachers who volunteered to be interviewed. Quantitative statistical analysis of the research evidence using chi square tests indicates a relationship between teachers' level of technology implementation and their age and years of experience teaching. However, the type of school where teachers teach (suburban, urban, or rural) and the highest degree earned by the teacher does not relate to teachers' implementation level, according to the statistical analysis. Thus, this dissertation is about high school English teachers' perspectives on levels of technology implementation in schools serving diverse learners. Using qualitative analysis, the study also found that technology is used on a limited basis by the teachers who provided comments in the survey and those who were interviewed due to lack of access to computers in classrooms. Most teachers indicated they use the teacher computer in their classrooms for clerical tasks and/or presentations to students. Student use of computers was limited to scheduling time in labs that must be shared among the other teachers and students on campus. In addition, the teachers commented that additional professional development is needed to help them implement available technology resources for teaching and learning. To address these challenges, administrators need to study what technology resources best support the teaching of writing, particularly in ways that help close the achievement gap and prepare students for college and careers. Administrators should provide for teachers and students more accessibility to technology resources beyond the school-wide computer lab. Finally, administrators need to offer their teachers varied, ongoing, and collaborative professional development focused on both writing instruction and technology resources to improve teachers' proficiencies and confidence in these areas.

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship of senior high school students¡¦ perception of work value and occupational selection. A cluster sampling is conducted to collect 528 8th graders from 7 senior high school students in Kaohsiung city . The valid response rate is 92.47%. In addition, 4 of students from 4 different schools are individually interviewed by this investigator in order to determine whether their paper and pencile responses are consistent with their actual perceptions. Finally, the hypotheses are tested through SPSS 15.0 statistical analyses. The results of the t-test, ANOVA, and regression reveal 11 major following findings: 1. There is non-significant gender difference on the scores of ¡§work value¡¨ and ¡§occupational selection¡¨¡Fwhereas girls¡¦¡Ascores on ¡§occupation environment & promotion¡¨ and ¡§work ensure¡¨ are significantly higher than those boy counterparts¡¦. 2. There is non-significant difference on the scores of ¡§work value¡¨ and ¡§occupational selection¡¨, while students¡Awho having different birth born order. 3. There is significant difference on the score of ¡§work of reputation and status¡¨, while studentsto obtain education degree levels. 4. There is significant difference on the score of ¡§occupation environment & promotion¡¨ and ¡§work ensure¡¨, while their fathers having different educational degree. 5. There is non-significance on the score of ¡§work value¡¨and ¡§occupational selection¡¨, while their mothers having different educational degree. 6. There is significant difference on the scores of ¡§work of independently & recreation¡¨ and ¡§work ensure¡¨, while students¡¦ studying in different style schools. 7. There is significant difference on the score of ¡§work value¡¨ , whereas there is non-significant difference on the score of ¡§occupational selection¡¨. 8. There is non-significant on the scores of ¡§work value¡¨ and ¡§occupational selection¡¨, while students having different academic achievement; whereas there is significant difference on the score of ¡§work reputation and status¡¨. 9. There is non-significant difference on the scores of ¡§work value¡¨ and ¡§occupational selection¡¨, while students with different task experiences. 10. The variables of students¡¦birth born order and self expectation to obtain education level and the score of ¡§work value¡¨ are together explained 35.2¢H of the variance of students¡¦¡Ainternal personality factor. 11.The variables of students¡¦ background, school style, birth born order, self expectation to obtain education level, and work value are together explained 24.3¢H of the variance of students¡¦ external environmental factor.

The study aims to understand the status of concentration on extracurricular reading and the academic performance of junior high school students. The purposes are: 1. to know the status of concentration on extracurricular reading; 2. to analyze the difference of the variable between the factors of concentration on extracurricular reading and the academic performance; 3. to explore the relationship between concentration on extracurricular reading and the academic performance. Surveys were given to junior high school students at the 1th,2th and 3th grade respectively in the public schools of Kaohsiung; total 300 students have replied to the questionnaires from nine classes. Analysis of variance was applied to understand the internal factors, such as their motivation, interest and attitude upon concentrating on extracurricular reading and the external factors, such as attitude of parents and teachers as well as school promotion. How students concentrated on extracurricular reading and its relationship with the academic performance was explored. The conclusions were described as follows: I. Overall analysis of the current conditions shows that junior high school students have medium involvement in extra-curricular reading; their academic achievements are in the upper medium level. II. In terms of involvement in extra-curricular reading, female junior high school students outperform male junior high school students in their overall involvement in extra-curricular reading. Due to differences in the father¡¦s and mother¡¦s education levels and the mother¡¦s employment type, there are differences in perception, and perceptions are higher for junior high school students from middle-class families than from lower middle-class families. III. In terms of academic achievement, female junior high school students have greater perceptions for overall academic achievement than male junior high school students. Due to differences in the father¡¦s and mother¡¦s education levels and the parents¡¦ employment type, there are differences in perception, and perceptions are higher for junior high school students from middle-class families than from lower middle-class families. IV. Reading motivation, reading interest, parental attitudes, school promotions, reading attitudes, the degree of involvement in reading, reading achievements, and overall involvement in extra-curricular reading all have a significant effect on the overall academic achievement of junior high school students The conclusions can be used as reference for educational administration units, schools, teachers, parents and future researchers.

The purposes of this study were to explore the love values reflected in Mandarin popular songs in Taiwan and related values among Taiwanese senior high students. The researcher adopted content analysis and questionnaire survey as the major research methods for the research. A total of 1081 pieces of lyric of popular songs which have been voted as the top 10 of each week in the CASHBOX Magazine from May, 1998 to May, 2003 were located to conduct the content analysis. The questionnaire, based upon the literature review and the results of the lyric content analyses, were filled out by 854 senior high schools students in Kaohsiung city and Kaohsiung county. The statistic measures of descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-squre test and cross tabulation analysis were used for the data analyses. The study concluded in the following findings: 1. Love values of Mandarin popular songs from May, 1998 to May, 2003: (1)Love is still the most important topic in popular songs. (2)Most popular songs usually present a situation of frustration or crisis during the love. (3)Most lyrics often reflect the negative side of love. 2. Love values of Taiwanese senior high school students (1)Most senior high students still hold more positive attitudes toward love. (2)The experiences of being boyfriend or girlfriend, whether to be in love presently and being crazy about popular songs or not, all three did make difference among the various aspects of love values of senior students. (3)Gender, school location and regularly listening to popular songs or not make no difference in students¡¦ love values. 3. The difference between the love vlues of lyrics and those of senior high school students. The results were that there existed a lot of differences between lyrics and senior high school students. Most lyrics offen reflect negative love values, but most senior high school students have opposite views toward love. According to the research results mentioned above, the researcher found that the love values of lyrics of popular songs were different from those of senior high school students. At the same time, the lyrics did not completely reflect the love world held by the adolescent. Therefore, due to the fact that the content analysis of lyrics was not the only measure adopted to project the love values of the adolescent, it would not be the sufficient instrument in exploring fully the loves values of senior high students in Taiwan.