[[alternative]]A Study of Learning Satisfactions for Students Majoring in Academic Programs in Comprehensive High School

[[abstract]]This thesis was to investigate the learning satisfactions for students majoring in academic programs in comprehensive high school. In pursuit of the purpose of this study, firstly, the researcher use the literature review to build the framework of this study, and next, develop “The Questionnaire of Surveying the Learning Satisfactions for Students Majoring in the Academic programs at comprehensive high school”. The result of this questionnaire is very reliable and effective due to it being through the factor analysis and item analysis. In this study, there were 9,941 third grade students in 90 comprehensive high schools, which set academic programs in the academic year of 2003. A sample of 1,600 students was stratified random sampling from 20 schools（10 public schools & 10 private schools）. The actual questionnaires returned are 1,121 copies but with only 1112 are effective after screening. A 70% of return rate was achieved. The statistical methods implemented hereinafter include Frequency, Percentages, Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Schaffer’s posterior comparisons, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, Chi-square test etc. After the data was analyzed, the main findings can be concluded as follows: 1. As a whole, the degree of learning satisfaction for the students majoring in the academic programs in comprehensive high school were “Acceptable ”, but the satisfactory tends to be lower than 4 points which stand for the standard of satisfaction. 2. The factors of the learning satisfaction were ranked as follows: counseling guidance, teacher Instruction, learning environment, learning achievement, but learning attitude was the lowest satisfaction level on the factors, but all the satisfactory tends to be lower than 4 points which stand for the standard of satisfaction. 3.There was no significant difference in learning satisfaction within school belongings, school type, school location, gender and educational background of student parents, respectively. 4.There was significant difference in learning satisfaction between courses choices that chose natural group was higher then social group. 5.There were significant differences in learning satisfaction among the reasons of program choices, that depend on his own interest was higher then those classmates effect, school distribution, and other reasons. 6. There were significant correlations between the school belongings,school location and the reasons of program choices. But there were no significant correlations between the gender, educational background of student parents and the reasons of program choices. 7. There were significant correlations between the school belongings, gender, school location and the courses choices. But there were no significant correlations between the educational background of student parents and the courses choices. According to the findings and conclusions of this research, some suggestions as references were made for educational administration organization, comprehensive high schools, teachers, and the further studies, respectively.