This study intended to investigate the current status of the functional curriculum for students with mental retardation in noncategorical resource program of junior high schools in Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City. In addition, the perception of admininstrators and teachers toward the implementation of ¡§Basic Competence Test for special education in vocational high school¡¨, as well as the impact on functional curriculum arrangement were explored. A questionnaire was developed to collect the data from resource program administrators and functional curriculum teachers. In-depth interviews were adopted with six participants. The final results were derived from 43 administrators and 119 teachers contributing to this investigation. The major findings of the study were as follows. (1) An average of 2~3 functional curriculum were arranged in accordance with the levels of students¡¦ competencies and the specialties of the teachers. The majority of schools adopted a way of cross-grade teaching and pull-out programs. chools adopted cross-grade grouping method and pull-out programs. (2) Teachers developed courseware based on student¡¦s motor abilities and the cognitive abilities and used grouping teaching method to cope with students¡¦ needs. (3) Both administrators and teachers perceived that fuctional curicclum sceheduling disturbanced them most. (4) The implementation of ¡§Basic Competence Test for special education in vocational high school¡¨highly influenced the functional curriculum arrangement and instruction, particularly on students¡¦ class schedule and instructional goal setting.

MPM / Oliver Tambo Institute of Governance and Policy Studies / See the attached abstract below