本文旨在探討我國後期中等教育入學進路的變革,並分析變革所帶來的影響及其課程啟示。本文首先討論進路的意義,將國中與後期中等教育階段的不同課程視為相關而又獨立的學程,而學程與學程之間又相連起來成為學生發展的進路。其次,本文回顧1990年代以來各後中入學進路的主要變革,並繼之詳細地分析影響這些變革的脈絡。本文主張:後中入學進路的變革,使得我國中等教育學制的分軌型色彩降低,連結型的特色增加,也使得前、後期中等教育在分流機制中的角色與功能有所改變。由於各階段教育的性質與目標,乃是課程規劃時的主要依據之一,因此,前、後期中等教育課程的改革應重視我國學制逐漸由分軌型朝向連結型的脈絡與趨勢,並宏觀地考量相關配套措施,以便妥善因應。
The purpose of this paper is to review the changing entrance mechanism to upper secondary education since the early 1990s and to explore its implication to the curriculum reforms for both lower and upper secondary education in the future. Based on the pathway perspective (Raffe, 1993), lower and upper secondary education are seen as several individual but linked programmes. Those who graduate from lower secondary education and then enter to upper secondary education are therefore seen as passing from one programme to another and, thus, going through one particular 'pathway'. The main argument of this paper is that the changes of the entrance mechanism to upper secondary education in the past ten years are changing the two stages of secondary education. It is the school system which was characterized by individual tracks was gradually becoming integrated. As a result, the role and educational function of both lower and upper secondary education are increasingly affected.