The Criteria and Relative Suggestions of Elementary School Teachers in
Selecting Chinese Textbooks
Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze teachers¡¦ opinions about the criteria and their suggestions for selecting the Chinese textbook. In order to achieve the research goal, the researcher¡A based on documentary analysis ¡A makes self-written materials about ¡§survey of teachers on criteria and suggestion of selecting the Chinese textbook in the elementary school.¡¨
The population of this survey was elementary school teachers in Kaohsiung area. 563 teachers were stratifiedly sampled from 48 elementary schools were the samples by using Stratified Sampling. Among Them 403 returning surveys were effecitve. The data analysis was conducted through the Descriptive statistics, T-test,and One-Way ANOVA.
1. According to the teachers¡¦ opinions on criteria of selecting the Chinese textbook,the order of importance is Teaching-Related Attributes, Physical-Related Attributes, Publication-Related Attributes, Outside-Related Attributes, and Context-Related Attributes of textbook.
2. In the Context-Related Attributes, teachers stressed on the correction of the content, and the capability of approaching the grade 1-9 curriculum competence indicators.
3. In Teaching-Related Attributes, teachers focused on the attraction of students' motivation and the instructional strategies of conforming the grade 1-9 curriculum competence indicators in the selecting book.
4. In Physical-Related Attributes, teachers emphasized the most on the size of typeface basing on the suitability of reading.
5. In Publication-Related Attributes, teachers emphasized the most on the continuance of the research which the publisher could make in linguistic field.
6. In Outside-Related Attributes, teachers stressed the most on the experience of using Chinese textbook and the educational philosophy in the textbook.
7. Female teachers paid more attention to Teaching-Related Attributes and Context-Related Attributes than the male teachers.
8. The teachers in large-scale schools paid more attention to Publication-Related Attributes of textbook than the teachers in other schools.
9. The elementary school teachers in remote districts paid more attention to all attributes of textbook than the teachers in cities and towns.
10. 62.8% of the elementary school teachers agreed that teachers are the major population who could make the choice of textbooks to use.
11. 97.9% of the elementary school teachers thought that teachers should be the faculties who could select textbooks to use, but they lacked consistency of thoughts that parents of the students also need to select textbooks.
12. Only a few elementary school teachers expressed that there were continual evaluations of textbook proceeding in their schools.
Based upon the above conclusions, this research provides suggestions to and reference material for teachers, schools, publishers, educational administration and future research.
Keywords: textbook. criteria of selecting the Chinese textbook. the suggestion of selecting the Chinese textbook
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0907105-112430 |
| Date | 07 September 2005 |
| Creators | Huang, Yu-Ting |
| 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-0907105-112430 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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