The purposes of this study was to investigate the junior high school students¡¦ perceptions of ¡uQuality Senior High School Program¡v and the factors of selecting senior high schools for further study. 1,112 8th and 9th graders of Pingtung County junior high schools were sampled to complete a 37 ¡V items questionnaire. Based on reliability and validity analyses, the 37 ¡V items were divided into 6 dimensions as follows: school and teachers¡¦ performances, recommendation from relatives or friends, school propaganda, personal selection factor, school activity, and the distance between home and school. The descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Logistic Regression were conducted to come to the following findings:
1. Most of the countries in the world adopt school district, in high school education and their students enroll nearby schools mostly.
2. The main purpose of promoting the Quality Senior High School Program is to make the students who have good achievements remain in local schools, and develop the school characterization.
3. The students in the north district of Pingtung County have highly approval towards Quality Senior High School Program.
4. The top three factors that influenced junior high students selecting which senior high to study are individual factors, the reputation of school and the faculties, and the transportation convenience.
5. The eighth grades and students from remote areas have higher recognition of the Quality Senior High School Program.
6. Students from different background are wide varied while making school choice.
7. Over 50% of junior high students are willing to enroll senior high schools nearby.
8. Individual factors, school activities, and distance between home and school will effectively predict the students¡¦ willingness to select neighboring senior high schools.
According to the results stated above, the researcher offers several suggestions for the educational authorities, senior high schools and junior high schools in the north district of Pingtung County, hoping to be of referential value as far as related research and practice are concerned.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0615110-160046 |
| Date | 15 June 2010 |
| Creators | Lin, Chia-Cheng |
| Contributors | Ren-Chih, Liao, Zuway-R, Hong, Ching-Hwa, Tsai |
| 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-0615110-160046 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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