Abstract
This research aims to study the related conception of the appraisal system of vocational high school teachers, to understand the different views of the appraisal implementation strategies, to understand teachers different views on the appraisal index, so as to build up an appraisal implementation strategies and index for the vocational high school teachers.
This research takes the teaches who teach at public and private vocational high school in Taiwan as mother body, randomly draws 30 public schools and 30 private schools, 14 teachers respectively, and gets 840 copies of questionnaire to be the investigation samples in total, in addition to interview senior teachers to collect more information as for analyst and discussion.
This research uses “ A Research Questionnaire for Vocational High School Teachers Appraisal “ and “ A Research Interview Outline for Vocational High School Teachers Appraisal “ as tools. T-Tset, ANOVA and Scheffe’ Posterior Comparisons are used to analyze the information getting from abovementioned tools.
1. Important Conclusions:
(1) This research gets important conception on the meaning, purpose, method, procedure as well as relative programs on the appraisal system of the vocational high school teachers in Taiwam.
(2) Teachers in different background elements still exist different views on the appraisal strategies.
(3) The teachers from the same sex or choosing the same organization to operate the appraisal affairs show the some views on teacher’s appraisal index, the teachers in different background elements still show their different views on the appraisal index.
(4) The strategies for the teacher’s appraisal are divided into functions, items in project level, items in ordinary preparation level, items for the appraisal unit in appraisal level and representation of the appraisal teachers.
(5) The appraisal index is divided into five categories as teaching knowledge and ability, teaching attitude, students counseling, administration service, as well as personal character and profession. Except students counseling does not have its sub-category, the rest have two or three sub-categories, and 68 items following the sub-categories.
2. Suggestions:
(1) Suggestions to the educational administration:
(a) Program the appraisal system of the vocational high school teachers earlier.
(b) The frequency of the appraisal should be conducted by the educational administration once every two or three years.
(c) The appraisal for vocational high school is unique, it should not be programmed with ordinary high schools and elementary schools.
(d) For the fairness, the appraisal should be conducted by educational administration.
(e) The appraisal should take gradual programs, from an experimental basis to overall practice.
(f) The outline of the appraisal index should be set up by the educational administration, different schools can develop their items and get approval by their educational administration.
(g) It takes further research on the combination of the teachers
appraisal and governmental employees service grading.
(2) Suggestions to schools:
(a) Schools should enhance the publicity on the meaning and the function of teacher’s appraisal, so as to build up teachers common consensus.
(b) Taking action research project to conduct experimental practice.
(c) The private schools should enhance their communications with teacher in the ideal of the appraisal.
(d) Each school should establish its own appraisal index unit for setting up its own specific index of the school.
(e) Each school should establish its own appraisal program for its own work.
(f) Each school should have its own teacher’s appraisal manual for teacher’s reference.
(3) Suggestions to teachers:
(a) Teachers should positively participate in the teacher’s appraisal, in order to improve their teaching effect and professional growth.
(b) During the ordinary teaching file preparation period, teachers should force themselves in self-teaching-growth.