The purposes of this study were (1) to reexamine what were found by the survey on KNU Teachers College Students after the Pilot School Project (Ⅰ) in order to assess the possibility of .generalizing results of the survey across different groups of s...
The purposes of this study were (1) to reexamine what were found by the survey on KNU Teachers College Students after the Pilot School Project (Ⅰ) in order to assess the possibility of .generalizing results of the survey across different groups of students who enter Teachers College after the Pilot School Project was implemented, (2) and to examine students' opinion toward the current procedures of assingning freshemen to departments or majors of the Teachers College.
The subjects were freshmen of KNU Teachers' College from 1975 to 1777 academic year. However, the data pertaining to the students from 1975 to 1976 had been gathered while the survey on Teachers College Students after the Pilot School (Ⅰ) was being carried out. In order to collect the data with regard to the students entered the Teachers College in 1977, four different questionnaives were employed. The data were statistically tested by means of chi-technique only when it seemed necessary and appropriate.
Major findings of this study are as following:
(1) After the Pilot School Project was employed, there were general tendency in students' reason applying for admission to KNU Teachers College: Each academic year, approximately 40% of freshmen decided to enter the college to be secondary school teachers in the future.
(2) Students' attitude toward the new procedures of screening college applicants, which was employed after the Pilot School Project, were negative in general. Furthermore, their negative attitude became stronger year by year.
(3) The degree of students' satisfaction with their majors were relatively higher than that expressed by the students who entered the college before the Pilot School Project was employed.
(4) Both students' criteria for selecting their majors and then reasons for changing their majors which they had been interested in applying were varied across time subjects and time.
(5) The obtained contingency coefficient between departments and GPA students of each department earned during thir freshmen year was 0.831. It seems to indicate that majority of freshment tends to choose their majors according to their GPA rather than their interest or aptitude.
(6) Approximately 67.73% of freshmen of the 1977 academic year accepted the end of the academic year as the most appropriate time for assigning them to departments they desire to enter.
7) Approximately 52.10% of freshment supported the idea of assigningas many students to the departments as they wish to enter, as far as it is possible, by adjusting the capacity of department, which is regulated by MOE.
(8) Approximately 61.08% of freshmen claimed not to deduct their GPA when their first choice of department became impossible and turned down to the second or the third one.