英文摘要 |
The objectives of this study were to investigate junior high school scienceand technology (S&T) teachers’ satisfaction levels in regard to the frameworkand content of volume one of the national S&T textbook for junior highschool students and to examine differences based on demographic variables ofthe teachers. To achieve these objectives, a questionnaire with 184 items wasmailed to all 56 junior high schools that selected the national S&T textbook.The following conclusions were made based on the survey results: (1) Thegender, major, teaching experience, and educational background of teachersdid not affect their satisfaction with the national textbook; (2) Teachers weremoderately satisfied with the “framework,” “content attributes,” “teaching attributes”and “readability” of the national textbook; (3) Teachers tended to bemore satisfied with the “physical attributes” of the national textbook; (4) Theframework of the national textbook needs to better planned to provide moreappropriate learning content and order; (5) The content of the national textbookcould be improved by enhancing the integration of rationale, and thecompleteness, logicality, and relation to life of content; (6) The national textbookcould be improved by planning instructional goals, learning activities,evaluations, and auxiliary learning materials; (7) The content of the nationaltextbook could be improved with more appropriate illustrations, characters,fonts, interesting headings, and appropriate sentence structure. |