本研究的主要目的，在於了解二專學生的自我調整學習及自我調整學習教學之效果。研究中除探討二專生自我調整學習所涉及之重要歷程與因素、檢視自我調整學習與學業表現之間的關連外，並驗證融入式自我調整學習策略教學之效果。 本研究採文獻探討與實證研究二部分進行之。首先，就自我調整學習之概念、理論與相關研究進行文獻分析，據以形成二專生自我調整學習之研究架構，而後，進行實證研究考驗之。實證研究方面，分別進行問卷調查及教學實驗二項研究，問卷調查係針對目前二專各類科學生進行抽樣調查，有效樣本1717人，分析並比較其於國文科的自我調整學習情形及學業表現；教學實驗則採準實驗設計，以二專四個班級共222名學生為對象，將自我調整學習策略教學融入實驗組之心理學課程之中進行之，分析並比較實驗組(N=110)與控制組(N=112)之自我調整學習及學業表現。 本研究根據研究發現，獲致結論如下： 一、 二專生的自我調整學習，主要包括學習的動機信念與學習策略的使用二個重要歷程，且此二歷程密切關連。 二、 二專生的自我調整學習策略，主要包括認知策略與意志控制策略二類，且此二類策略密切關連。 三、 二專生的個人變項會影響其自我調整學習。 四、 二專生的自我調整學習會影響其學業表現。 五、 自我調整學習策略教學可融入二專學科課程之中。 六、學習回饋為融入式自我調整學習策略教學之重要關鍵，應同時兼顧學習結果及學習歷程之回饋。 七、融入式自我調整學習策略教學可增進二專生自我調整學習策略的使用，並提昇其學業表現。 最後，本研究依據研究結論，提出對二專教師、學校、教育主管機關及未來研究之建議，以作為二專教學、教育政策實施及相關研究之參考。 / The main purpose of this research was to investigate the self-regulated learning of two-year junior college students and the effects of self-regulated learning intervention. In this research, the important processes and factors involved in self-regulated learning of two-year junior college students as well as their relationships with academic performance were examined. Besides, it validated the effects of integrated self-regulated learning strategy instruction. Employing both literature and empirical researches. It analyzed the concepts, theories, and relevant studies of self-regulated learning on the literature to construct the study framework first, and conducted empirical studies to validate it afterwards. The empirical studies included a survey as well as a teaching experiment. The survey resulted a valid sample totaled 1717, out of a random sample of the current two-year junior college students. The self-regulated learning and academic performance on Chinese learning were analyzed and compared. The teaching experiment was a quasi-experiment. With four classes totaled 222 as subjects; the experiment embedded strategy instruction in the Psychology curriculum of experiment group. The self-regulated learning and academic performance of both experiment group (N=110) and control group (N=112) were analyzed and compared. According to the findings, the conclusions were rendered as follows: 1. The self-regulated learning of two-year junior college students mainly consisted of two important processes: the motivational belief and the use of learning strategy. The two processes were interrelated. 2. The self-regulated learning strategy of two-year junior college students mainly consisted of two kinds of strategies: the cognitive strategies and the volitional control strategies. The two kinds of strategies were interrelated. 3. The personal variables of two-year junior college students would affect their self-regulated learning. 4. The self-regulated learning of two-year junior college students would affect their academic performance. 5. The self-regulated learning strategy instruction could be integrated in the curriculum of two-year college. 6. Learning feedback was the key factor in the integrated self-regulated learning strategy instruction. It should include learning result feedback and learning process feedback. 7. The integrated self-regulated learning strategy instruction could improve the use of self-regulated learning strategy and academic performance of two-year junior college students. Finally, based on the conclusions, it provided concrete suggestions for two-year junior college instruction, relevant educational policies, and further studies.

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of evaluating the Mid-Management concept of cooperative education at Tarrant County Junior College's South Campus. Evaluative data regarding the various parts of the Mid-Management program were obtained from current students, graduates, and employers, through use of primary source questionnaires and interviews. This study leads to the conclusion that promotional opportunities for students and especially graduates have been enhanced by more than 15 percent and, that a significant number of students and graduates have experienced an improvement in self-image and an increase in self-confidence. It is concluded further, that employers have perceived an increase in their Mid-Management employees' understanding of the manager's job and in their performance on the job, and that employers positively endorse the job-related-project approach of cooperative education. Earnings of both current students and graduates increased substantially after participation in the program; some of these improvements can probably be attributed to the program itself while others were due to inflation, tenure on the job, and other factors.

The problem of this study was a comparison of female administrators' self-perceived leadership styles to those of their superordinates' perceptions in five major junior/community college districts in Texas. The population included 59 female administrators submitting biographical information with 53 of the 59 submitting information on their leadership styles. The leadership data were paired with 53 superordinates for comparison of the perceptions of each group. In conclusion both groups agreed on the leadership style exhibited most often by female administrators as being high relationship-low task. Even though the female administrators exhibited this dominant style, the majority of the women and their superiors agreed they could span the other styles in an effective manner.

This study is concerned with the problem of determining the types and characteristics of wellness programs presently offered by selected junior and community colleges throughout the United States. The purposes include (1) the investigation of the extent to which the six dimensional scheme of wellness, as developed by William Hettler, M. D. [Family and Community Health, May, 1980], has been implemented on the campuses of junior and community colleges and (2) an exploration of the validity of Hettler's model of wellness for these institutions. The study population sample is the membership list of the junior and community college section of the American College Health Association, which is a multidisciplinary professional organization for university and college health administrators. The specially designed survey instrument produced a 73 per cent response return. Response frequencies and percentages were gathered to show the current and anticipated prevalence of different types of wellness programs and the current and anticipated management related characteristics of wellness offerings in these college settings. Several open-ended questions also produced narrative respondent opinions.

The problem of this study was the description of two year college instructional and vocational-technical administrators' expectations concerning the enrollment of adults over thirty years of age in two-year colleges and the colleges' need to respond to this population. Ninety of 125 Texas administrators eligible to participate and the Delphi process developed a consensus of opinion. The Delphi process consists of a series of three rounds of solicitation of opinion from panelists through responses to questionnaires and controlled feedback to the panelists of information relevant to the issue in the form of a group statistical response.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences exist among counselors, academic faculty, and occupational faculty, on two campuses of a junior college district, with respect to the emphasis they believe that counselors should place on specific counseling activities.

The purposes of this study were to identify criteria which influence students' decisions to attend specific colleges and to determine whether different groups of students use similar criteria. The following groups were compared: white students and minority students, males and females, older students and younger students, university-bound students and vocational students, and full-time students and part-time students. The sample used for this study was taken from the students enrolled in freshman English classes at Vernon Regional Junior College, Clarendon College, and Grayson County College. Approximately 100 students at each college were selected to participate in the study. Each student in the study received instruction, provided demographic information, and completed a two-part survey. The survey asked respondents to evaluate each of twenty items on a Likert-type scale. The data provided were compiled and organized into groups by a data base computer program. Data obtained from specific groups of respondents were compared, first through an examination of means, then through a chi-square test of independence. It was determined that the most important college selection criteria to these respondents were the cost of attendance, the availability of specific programs, the size of the college, the size of individual classes, the location of the school, and the availability of financial aid. Further, the research revealed that two comparison groups differed significantly in their choices of important college selection criteria. Younger students appeared to use different selection criteria than their older counterparts, and vocational students differed from university-bound students in their choice of criteria.

The effects of top-level text structure and signaling on the reading recall of Japanese female junior college students studying English as a foreign language were investigated in this study. One hundred thirty-two subjects were selected from a private female junior college in Tokyo. The students were divided into three groups—high, average, and low reading comprehension levels—based on the results of the Test of Reading Comprehension. The instrument used to measure students' recall ability was developed from expository passages taken from a biology textbook. The passages were rearranged to show identifiable top-level structure, collection of description, causation, problem/solution, or comparison. Each passage was divided into two versions: a with-signaling version, in which top-level structure was explicitly stated by signaling words or phrases, and a without-signaling version, where signaling words or phrases were omitted. After the students were stratified on reading comprehension, they were assigned to eight different versions of text—two of each of the four top-level text structures, one with- and one without-signaling. In the recall test, students were instructed to read the text and to remember as much as they could.

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The purpose of this study was to develop information and understanding concerning the use of instructional resources, including library materials, by community junior college vocational-technical instructors. The study sought to determine whether the kinds and amounts of instructional resources used by vocational technical instructors in their courses were related to their: (a) level of formal education, (b) number of courses in Higher Education completed, (c) years of teaching experience, and (d) teaching status (full or part-time). Further, the study sought to determine whether the attitudes toward use or non-use of the library were related to such instructor characteristics. The analyses of the data revealed that vocational technical instructors at Tarrant County Junior College utilized a wide variety of instructional resources in their courses. Instructional resources used in at least 50 percent of vocational-technical courses were: audio-visual materials, 88 percent; departmental books, 73 percent; personally owned books, 72 percent; manufacturers' literature other than service manuals, 63 percent; information from notes of previously taken courses, 63 percent; departmentally prepared syllabi, 58 percent; personally owned journals, 56 percent; self-prepared syllabi, 53 percent; manufacturers' service manuals, 52 percent; and association publications, 50 percent.