Vocational Teachers’ Perception of the Effects on Increasing Recruitment Benefit of the 12-Year Compulsory Education’s Pioneer Program

Abstract

Abstract-The objective of this study is to explore the perceptions of vocational teachers in senior high schools, with teachers' different backgrounds as variables, regarding the effects of the preparatory measures of the 12-year fundamental education program on increasing student recruitment. This study constructed the questionnaire as the research tool. Upon an initial review by scholars and experts, trial test questionnaires were issued to vocational teachers affiliated with five schools in central Taiwan. After the trial test questionnaires were recovered, statistic analysis were performed to screen for validity and to eliminate questions with low correlations. Formal questionnaires were then constructed and issued to vocational teachers at 25 schools selected with the stratified random sampling method from the varied populations; 568 out of the 691 issued questionnaires were recovered, for an effective recovery rate of 82.20%. SPSS20.0 software was used for data analysis, with such statistical methods as frequency distribution, percentage, means, standard deviation, t-test, One Way ANOVA and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation.