全國原住民族研究論文之現況分析與建議──以2009年至2012年之論文發表為例

An Analysis of Indigenous Theses in Taiwan: The Conference of National IndigenousResearch, 2009-12

本文以2009年至2012年行政院原住民族委員會主辦－全國原住民族論文發表之博、碩士論文為研究資料主體，其他時期之博、碩士論文為輔佐資料，係以施用混和研究方法，分析討論此期間原住民族博、碩士論文發表情況，藉以反照目前原住民族高等教育研究之現況。分析後結果顯示，原住民族相關的高等教育研究中不論作者是原住民或漢人，皆呈現成長之趨勢。再者，從論文品質方面探討，我們發現全國原住民族論文發表之博、碩士論文，在近年內有向上提升之情況，尤其是原住民學生組的表現更是優越。然而，在論文結構與組織上，我們認為進步的空間還很大，尤其是在方法學與實施方法的步驟與內容之區別，應加以描述；而信度、效度、以及其他種類之研究工具與研究過程展現之效度之說明亦須強化。最後，根據分析結果，我們提出些許建議，希望能鼓勵未來台灣原住民族相關之高等教育研究議題上，皆能在質量上都更上一層樓。

Throughout 2009 to 2012, each year the Center for Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples’ Education and Enterprise Development (CTIPEED thereafter) was commissioned by the Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, to hold the National Indigenous Dissertations and Theses Presentation. With abundant data collected in the CTIPEED, we felt obligated to analyze the data, and to give suggestions to the future research efforts in similar regards. As an initial research question, we simply wished to know who did what kinds of researches related Taiwanese Indigenous peoples in the past four years. As part of limitation of the current study, our data set seemed restricted to those who participated in our presentations, but we believed lessons could be learned and suggestions could be given after the analyses. In terms of methods, we analyzed the data with statistic and qualitative methods before we discussed and wrote the results and the discussion part.
As results, we found that the numbers and qualities of dissertations and theses related to Taiwanese Indigenous peoples increased, yet the room for improvement remained huge, especially on the structures of an intellectual paper and on the organizations of presenting ideas. We also found that the presentations of the methods and the methodology were not clear. Reliability and validity in quantitative studies, and other forms of quality measure for qualitative studies, were not fully discussed in most of the presentations. Finally in our study, suggestions for future researchers who wish to conduct research related to Taiwanese Indigenous peoples are given.