並列篇名 |
THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-CHANNEL ENTRANCE PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN 2001 ON ENTRANCE-EXAM-RELATED STRESS, DAILY SCHEDULE, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, AND ART AND TALENT PERFORMANCE |
英文摘要 |
The Ministry of Education abolished the joint entrance examination and adopted a multi-channel entrance program for high schools and junior college in 2001, hoping to ease junior high school students' entrance-exam-related stress. The paper uses the Taiwan Youth Project in 2000, which surveyed 7th and 9th grade students who applied to the new and old entrance systems respectively to examine the effects of the program on students' entrance-exam-related stress, daily schedule, extracurricular activities, and art and talent performance. Results show that after the implementation of the program, the students' entrance-exam-related stress is amplified. They also have a busier schedule than they used to. Moreover, using the adoption of the program in 2001, this paper applies a differences- in-differences method to examine its effects on extracurricular activities and art and talent performance. This paper uses students applying to the old entrance system as the comparison group, and students applying to the new entrance system as the treatment group. Results indicate that the program leads to students doing more extracurricular activities and art and talent performance. |