Definition of lA/TE Objectives of lA/TE Teaching Content and Strategies Manual training Manual arts. Industrial arts movement 41 Curriculum reform in the 1960s 43 Jackson's Mill Curriculum Theory 47 Technology education movement 48 Problems 53 Summary 59 CHAPTER III. METHODOLOGY 62 Definition of the Population and Identification of Sample ' 62 Data Collection Instrument 62 Variables of the Study ..... ..... 63 Research Hypotheses 65 Research hypothesis 1 65 Research hypothesis 2 65 Research hypothesis 3 65 Research hypothesis 4 66 Research hypothesis 5 66 Research hypothesis 6 67 Research hypothesis 7 67 Research hypothesis 8 67 Methods of Statistical Analysis of Data 68 CHAPTER IV. RESULTS AND FINDINGS 70 Results of Survey Response 70 i i i Program Characteristics 71 Highest degree offered 72 Enrollment trends of the lA/TE programs Enrollment trends of the IT programs • lA/TE teacher education enrollment.trends 80 IT enrollment trends 80 lA/TE graduates Salary of lA/TE graduates 82 Specialty area of faculty Curriculum emphasis .83 Impact of technologies on programs Adaptation of technologies into programs Item Analysis Philosophical objectives Problems of technology education Teacher factor The enrollment factors in the secondary schools The teaching content factor in TE programs ... Facility problems in TE programs Solutions of the technology education problems. . Feasible solutions to TE teacher problems ... Feasible solutions to enrollment problems ... Feasible solutions to the teaching content problems 99 Feasible solutions for the facility problems. 100 Prospects of technology education Factor Analysis 105 Philosophical objectives of technology education 105 Problems of technology education ....... 106 Solutions of technology education problems ... 108 Prospects of technology education 113 Hypothesis Testing 115 Research hypothesis 1 115 Research hypothesis 2 117 Research hypothesis 3 118 Research hypothesis 4 120 Research hypothesis 5 122 Research hypothesis 6 125 Research hypothesis 7 129 Research hypothesis 8 .... 132 CHAPTER V. A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE STUDY AND .... 135 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REFORM 135 A General Review of the Study 135 Restatement of the problem 135 Restatement of the purposes 135 Program characteristics 137 Highest degree offered 137 V APPENDIX A: COVER LETTER 210a APPENDIX B: FOLLOW-UP LETTER 211a APPENDIX C: THE QUESTIONNAIRE 212 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION With the rapid growth of science, western civilization is undergoing a dramatic technological revolution. Actually, this unprecedented technology change in human history began in the latter portion of the twentieth century. Naisbitt (1982) observed that scientific and technical information increases thirteen percent per year, which means it doubles every five and one-half years. Naisbitt emphasizes that with the advent of an information society, we have, for the first time, an economy based on a key resource that is not only renewable, but also selfgenerating. This means high school freshmen of 1988 will experience.a quantum leap in the...
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