The purpose of this study was to investigate the academic performance and related learning guidance offered for elementary and junior high school students who's parents were new immigrants to Taiwan. A total of 1095 elementary students and 280 junior high students were involved in this study. Questionnaires were sent to the sample schools by mail. Results indicated that the social economic status of the samples' families tended to be low. The academic performance of these samples were varies by location, their mother's nationalities and their family social economic status. In addition, most of the schools in this study offered learning guidance to those who had poor academic performance. It was also important to know that only twenty percent of the samples accepted the remedial instruction. Finally, the difficulties that schools faced to help these students came from failure of parental duties and shortage of both human resource and budgets. |