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[[alternative]]The Study of Information Needs of the Health and Physical Education Junior High School Teachers in the Hsinchu Area
No full text[[abstract]]The thesis aims to explore the information needs of Health and Physical Education Junior High School Teachers in the Hsinchu area, including contents and procedure of their teaching activities. The former consists of Health and Physical areas and the latter contains five categories, namely teaching materials, methodology, evaluation, class management, and others. Furthermore, the study probes the influences of teachers’ personal background and the environment variables to their information needs. The experimental data included census-taking questionnaires sent to 82 Health and Physical Education teachers in 13 Hsinchu Junior High Schools, with a total of 72 valid ones returned (return rate: 87.8%). Among there were 37 males and 35 females. The questionnaire was self-designed based on the related literature surveys and validated by 3 domain experts. The analysis was mainly done by descriptive statistics. Inferential statistics were also provided to test the relationships between demographic variables and information needs, including independent sampling t-test, and single factor ANOVA. The major results of the analysis are as follows: (1) The “class management” category shows the highest needs, and the detailed items of each category had similar results. The lowest information needs was in the “evaluation” category. However, no items in this category were distinctive from other items. (2) Only in the item of ‘content of physical education’ there exist significant differences between the Health Education teachers and Physical Education teachers. (3) Environment variables have more influences on the information needs than those of personal background variables. Particularly the “major in college” has much greater influence in the each information needs category. (4) There is a trend that more and more younger teachers worked in Hsinchu junior high schools. It may indicate that many schools would like to hire sufficient or even more teachers in the Health and Physical Education realms than before. This may greatly contribute to the standardization of teaching activities and teachers’ professional levels (5) The Health and Physical Education has been mostly separated into two subject areas in teaching. However, there are still many teachers taught the two subject areas at the same time without either Health or Physical background. Consequently, students may lose the opportunities to receive appropriate education, which the author suggests further re-evaluation is necessary. The study concluded that the teachers’ personal backgrounds have significant influence on their information needs. Suggestions to improve professional levels of teaching for related organizations were also provided.
