英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to describe the factors related to the teaching style preference of the teachers of the Taipei Adult Vocational Education Extension Services(TAVEES). The findings of this study can be used to asist the teachers in the orgnization to understand their personal teaching style, role perception and adult learning knowledge, and help them to improve their teaching. The finding can be used to aid administrators to develop some policy to increase the teachers personal and professional ability. A census was conducted using 21 TAVEES organization (n=251). A mailquestionaire was administered. The usable response rate consisted of 241 respondents. The measurement tool of Principles of Adult Learning Scales (PALS) was modified from Conti to measure teacher's teaching style preference as either "teacher-centered" or "learner-centered". The independent variances included: (1)teacher's knowledges of adult learning, (2)teacher's role pereception, (3)gender, (4)age, (5)highest educational degree, (6)major program area of teaching, (7)number of years employed, (8)teaching experience of pedagogy. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Stepwise Multiple Regression was used to determine the best predictor(s) of the dependent variable. Discriminant Analysis and Path Analysis were used to do further statistics. The results indicated that TAVEES teachers:(1)possess a scores on PALS between "teacher-centered" and "learner-centered". (2) have the lowest sccores on "Assessing Studen t Needs" factor in the seven factors that comprise the PALS.(3)exhibit a low level of knowledge of "adult learning","adult learning" and "the different teaching between children and adult" dimensions. (4)need to inforce their role perception on the dimensions of "learner-centered concept" and "sensitivity of adult learner". The results also demonstrated that:(1)the teacher's role perception is the most important factors of the teaching style preference as measured by PALS. (2)"number of years employed"is one of the most important influence factors of teaching style preference measured by PALS. |