臺灣地區幼教職前師資素質之特性：與其他大學生做比較

Characteristics of Quality among Taiwanese Students in Preschool Teacher Education: Comparisons with Other Undergraduate Students

林俊瑩(Chunn-Ying Lin)

《慈濟大學教育研究學刊》 6期 (2010/07) Pp. 1-30

https://doi.org/10.6754/TCUJ.201007.0001

摘要

良好教師的素質對於孩子學習的成功是很重要的，研究更指出幼童若能及早接觸到適切的課程內容，特別是好的幼教老師，將有助於那些低社經地位與環境不佳的孩子縮短學業成就的差距，獲致學校的成功。而臺灣地區每年有近二十萬的孩子進入幼稚園就讀，因此提昇幼教師資的素質就顯得很重要。
本研究的目的即在探究當前大學生中，幼教職前師資之素質與其它職前師資、非職前師資的大學生相較之差異，及造成差異之因果機制。根據相關研究建立一個因果模型，以學習努力作為學生個人背景變項（主要是職前師資類別），影響其在學成績的中介變項，並以入學前的大學學測總分與在學成績作為幼教職前師資素質的指標。本研究運用了臺灣高等教育資料庫之調查資料做分析，統計分析方法包括敘述統計、因素分析、多元迴歸分析和路徑分析等。
研究結果發現：(1)幼教職前師資（即修讀幼教學程學生）」比起其他大學生，其入學學測總分與在學成績都屬中上程度，顯示素質頗佳。(2)學生學習努力狀況，對學生的在學成績有正向影響。(3)進一步的路徑分析顯示：幼教學程學生比其他未修學程大學生更加認真學習，也就使其在學成績較高於這些大學生。最後，根據研究結果，分別對師資培育機構、教育政策以及未來研究提出建議。

關鍵字

幼兒教育 ； 師資培育 ； 學習努力 ； 師資素質

並列摘要

Teachers of high quality are very important to a child's success at school. Research shows that access to good early childhood programs with appropriate curricula, and in particular, good early childhood teachers, may help to bridge the achievement gap by providing children of lower socio-economic status, or from at-risk environments, with social and academic experiences that correlate with school success. As many such children enter kindergarten c1assrooms each year in Taiwan, it is necessary to promote the quality of preschool education teachers.
The main purpose of this study is to explore characteristics of quality among preschool teacher education students in Taiwan, and the influences of background factors. This study, based on related researches, builds up a causal model which uses learning effort for establishing intervening variables in analyzing how background variables (the main variable is the category of teacher education students) affect students' academic achievement.
It then conc1udes with two measurement indicators regarding quality among students in preschool teacher education: (1) scholastic test achievement scores for university; (2) academic achievement. The data analyzed in this study was obtained from the ”Taiwan Higher Education Data System.” The statistical methods: descriptive statistics, analysis, multiple regression analysis and path analysis, were adopted to analyze the research data.
The results are as follows. (1) Compared with other students, preschool teacher education students presented the highest level in academic achievement. (2) In general, learning effort had significant positive effects on academic achievement. (3) Path analysis also shows that preschool teacher students have to gain the advantage, in terms of learning effort to account for higher academic achievement, than that achieved by non-teacher education students. Final1y, according to the results, the researcher puts forward relative suggestions for a teacher cultivation institute, educational policy, and future studies.

並列關鍵字

preschool education ； teacher education ； learning effort ； quality