| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This study aims at clarifying the effectiveness of the characteristic high school courses, especially vocational courses. In 2003, we conducted interviews to 6 high schools with characteristic vocational courses. In 2004, we sent questionnaires to students at 74 high schools with characteristic vocational courses and received 9401 sample data in total. In 2005, we input and edited the data to make a dada set. Moreover we merged the data set with another data set which is made from a questionnaire survey on students in ordinal high schools conducted in 2003 by the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, using almost same questions, in order to make it possible to compare students in characteristic courses with those in ordinal courses. Through the analysis of this merged data, it is found out that ; students in characteristic vocational high school courses have more equal gender distribution, have more positive attitudes toward post-secondary education and have clearer vocatio
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nal prospects and study motivation, than students in ordinal courses in same vocational field ; although students at characteristic vocational high school courses as a total do not exhibit more smooth decisions of their destinations after high school graduation than students in ordinal vocational courses, when we divide the sample by the vocational fields of courses, in some fields such as agriculture and marine students in characteristic courses entertain higher possibility of success in getting regular jobs or registrations at technical colleges than students in ordinal courses in the same fields ; the students' inclination to light deviance to school norm such as being late for school, however, is more explicit in characteristic vocational courses than ordinal courses. In addition to that, students in characteristic vocational courses neither are more interested in the curriculum nor feel more relevance between the curriculum and future jobs than students in ordinal vocational courses. Therefore it can be concluded that the characteristic vocational courses have effectiveness unique to them, while their curriculum has room for still more improvement. Less
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