The main purposes of the study were to (A) analyze the relationships between teachers¡¦ demongraphic variables, professional growth motivation and their implement of open education, and (b) to investigate the relationships between teachers¡¦ implement of open education and their pupils¡¦ critical- and creative-thinking abilities.
The participants included 101 teachers and 556 students in elementary schools from kaosiung city and Tainan city. This is a two-stage study. The instruments employed at the first stage were The Appraisal of Teaching for Elementary School Teachers and The Questionnaire for Teachers¡¦ Professional Growth, and those employed at the second stage were the revised edition of the Test of Critical-thinking Skills for Primary and Secondary school Students and the new edition of the Test of Creative Thinking. The applied analysis methods included descriptive statistics, Hotelling¡¦s T2, multivariate analysis of variance, and multiple stepwise regression.
The results of the study were as follows:
1. The teachers¡¦ teaching experience had positive effects on their implement of open education.
2. The teacher who graduated from general universities did not have higher degree of implementing open education than those who graduated from normal universities.
3. The teachers¡¦ professional growth motivation had positive effects on their implement of open education.
4. The teachers¡¦ experiences of participating workshops about open education had positive effects on their implement of open education, while their experiences of general in-service study had not.
5. The teachers¡¦ professional growth motivation, experiences of participating workshops of open education, and experiences of in-service study could effectively predict their degree of implementing open education.
6. The teachers¡¦ degree of implementing open education had positive effects on their students¡¦ critical- and creative-thinking abilities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0619101-221012 |
| Date | 19 June 2001 |
| Creators | Han, Wan-chun |
| Contributors | Yu-chu Yeh, Bing-lin Cheng, Jin-qing Xie |
| 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-0619101-221012 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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