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“Sport talent class”is an education policy to cultivate eminent sportsman. These students have shown good performance in many competitions. However, because we before put too much emphasis on sports training rather than academic learning, they have been criticized for poor academic performance. Some believe it would have bad influence on students’ career development. Nevertheless, the new educational philosophy and the changes of education policy show that we don’t evaluate a student only by his academic performance. As a result, this study takes poor academic performance as the core concern, discusses the policy performance, unintended consequence and affecting factors form the policy implementation aspect, and finally provides policy suggestion
This research uses document analysis method and in-depth interview as research method, and analysis by ambiguity-conflict model and policy regime perspective. There are seven findings in this research. First, the sport talent class policy is high-ambiguity and low-conflict, and it can be classified as experimental implementation type in Matland’s ambiguity-conflict model. Second, students in sport talent class have got good grades in many competitions. It shows this policy have outstanding performance. Third, there are 84.20% sport talent class students of all senior high school attending college. It shows this policy have good performance.Forth, there are less than half students of this school attending the college. It shows this school should improve its performance. Fifth, students’ grades of General Scholastic Ability Test (GSAT) are bottom 12%. It shows there exists the unintended consequence of bad academic performance. Sixth, the influencing factors of bad academic performance include the grade of GSAT couldn’t play an important role when entering college, the performance evaluation mechanism of coaches and schools both emphasize the sports competition results, students have had poor academic performance since junior high school, teachers adjust the assessment criteria of students’ academic performance, coaches influence students’ thinking imperceptibly.Seventh, sport talent class has cultivated students with three core competencies(interpersonal relationships and teamwork, logical thinking and problem solving, and physical and mental wellness, and self-advancement). Eighth, sport talent class can become social safety net and promote social mobility.
Eventually, this study provides some policy suggestions. In the short term, competent authority could design the curriculum planning and teaching materials for sport talent class, revise performance indicators of coach and school, spread the successful academic support case, and teach coaches how to combine sports training with core competency. In the middle term, competent authority should improve sports environment and develop public’s sporting habit. In the long term, competent authority should consider whether we need sport talent class or not. |