| 英文摘要 |
In this study the material used was The Specific Interest Inventory by Paul P. Brainard and Frances G. Stewart translated into Chinese and revised to adapt to Chinese cultural conditions. As the Inventory was used in China for the first time, the aims of the study were twofold: first, to survey the interests of the freshmen, and second, to study the applicability of the Inventory upon people of this culture. Attention was especially centred on the interest differences among the students of the six colleges of the University. Answers are sought for the following questions: Are there any particular interest patterns for the colleges? If there are, what are the patterns and how may they be used as guide for one's choice of the most suitable college? The results are expected to become a crucial reference in student counselling, especially in helping solve problems of transfer of college. or department. The Inventory was administered on the class of freshmen as a group during Freshmen Week. The scoring to be suggestive of job and avocation was done according to the original key of Brainard and Stewart, while that suggestive of college or department was according to the job scored. There being no college of education in this university, 'Education' was classified into College of Liberal Art. 'Research' was arbitrarily classified into College of Science. Since those two and some other classifications were somewhat unsuitable, a new tentative classification category for the University was developed. The following results were obtained from the study, 1. For the different colleges studied, there are specific interest patterns which may be used as guide for a student's choice of a college. 2. For some of the colleges, low consistancy was found in the comparison between actual choice of college and suggested college on the basis of professed interests. This is probably attributable to the unsuitableness of the keys to students of this University. 3. Obvious sex difference was revealed. Male students were interested in 'matters of a more objective nature while female students were interested in those of a more subjective and personal nature. The number of common interests among female students was greater than that among male students. This fact was derived from the F-value of each interest unit. 4. The F-value of each interest unit among scores of six colleges was calculated and the significant level of F was set at P of 0.01. If P was lower than 0.01, the unit was regarded as a significant one and was crucial for differenciating colleges. Those crucial interest units were tabulated as the tentative classification category for students of this University. 5. When the tentative category is used the interest unit scores must be weighted so that scores are directly comparable among an individual's scores. The weights are to be given according to the degree of difficulty of each interest unit. 6. Classification of the grand total according to the original category was negatively skewed, which shows that the category is not suitable to the population. A tentative category for classifying the grand total was tabulated. This study, in general. shows that the interest patterns differ significantly smong students of the six colleges. Therefore, interest is crucial when one chooses a college, As the standardization sample of this study is not sound, on account of subjects being all freshmen, our categories are only tentative ones. To choose a sounder standardization sample, to make a more detailed analysis of the Inventory, such as item analysis, and to extend the investigation to include studies of the interest patterns of different departments of colleges would remain to be done. Then, the results would be more valuable in student counselling in this University. |
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