The purpose of this research is to investigate strategies and outcomes of school-based curriculum management in elementary schools of Kaohsiung City.
This research is designed with different personal background and school circumstance variables. It also provides suggestions for Education Bureau, Kaohsiung Government while managing local school curriculum. Moreover, the researcher discussed the behavior and meaning of school-based curriculum management and its specific effects and strategies to build an efficacious interactive model for curriculum.
Method for collecting data in this research is mainly through questionnaires. Questionnaires were sent to 8 people per elementary school in Kaohsiung, including Principlals, Directors of Academic Studies, Managers of Teaching Branch or Research and Development Branch, and 5 members from Curriculum Development Committee. Questions about strategies of curriculum management (curriculum leading, member communication, learning group organization, potential encouragement, and facilities support) and outcomes of curriculum management (curriculum organization, curriculum design, curriculum evaluation, curriculum knowledge and curriculum resources combination) are both involved in the questionnaire.
456 questionnaires were sent and 432 valid questionnaires are collected. Data are analyzed quantitatively by mean, standard deviation, T-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson Product-moment Correlation etc. Based on the statistics and analyses, conclusions are as followed:
1. Different personal background variables lead significant diversity on strategies of curriculum management.
2. Different school circumstance variables lead unsignificant diversity on strategies of curriculum management.
3. Different personal background variables lead significant diversity on outcomes of curriculum management.
4. Different school circumstance variables lead unsignificant diversity on outcomes of curriculum management.
5. Strategies of curriculum management is significant diversity to outcomes of curriculum management.
6. Strategies of curriculum management is significant correlateion to outcomes of curriculum management.
According to the conclusions, the researcher also addressed advice for local educational institution, school administrators and further research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0706106-223134 |
| Date | 06 July 2006 |
| Creators | Hong, Jhao-huei |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0706106-223134 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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