A Study on Students’ Learning Satisfaction in Mechanical Department. of Vocational High School in the Northern Area of Taiwan

[[abstract]]Abstract This research was done to probe into the learning satisfaction of the students in the Mechanical Dept. of vocational high school in northern Taiwan by studying the curriculum contents, teachers’ teaching activities, learning environment, learning attitude and interpersonal relationship. After the research and analysis of related documents and the analysis of experts’ validity, pretest and reliability, I compiled this questionnaire to survey the learning satisfaction of the students of Mechanical Dept. in vocational high school in northern Taiwan. By stratified and purposive sampling, I set the 4,786 students in the 22 public or private vocational high schools having Mechanical Dept. in the 94th school year in northern Taiwan as the parent population of this questionnaire. Sampling eight schools and delivering 760 questionnaires totally, I got 760 back. Except for 79 without effect, there are 681 questionnaires with effect. The effective percentage was 89.61%. conclusion of the study as follow: 1. The entire learning satisfaction of the students of Mechanical Dept. in the vocational high schools in northern Taiwan reaches above level 3. 2. There’s considerable difference of learning satisfaction among the students in different areas. 3. The discrepancy of learning satisfaction of the students in different grades is remarkable: the learning satisfaction in the second grade is superior to the one in the third grade. 4. The learning satisfaction in the students of the schools with different attribute is almost the same. 5. The total number of the classes of the mechanical dept. is a significant factor. The learning satisfaction of the students in schools with more classes is better than those in schools with less classes. 6. The students’ learning satisfaction would not be the same due to the different direction of the curriculum programs. 7. The learning satisfaction of the students who study common subjects at home by themselves is higher. 8. The learning satisfaction of the students who study technical subjects at home by themselves is higher. 9. Whether there’s an instructor in mechanic field at home won’t affect the learning satisfaction of the students. According to the conclusion above, I submit several proposals to the educational organizations for reference and make sure the direction of the later on research. Keywords: Mechanical Dept., learning satisfaction, the related factors of learning satisfaction