%0 Journal Article
%T A Survey of Junior High School Science and Technology Teachers¡¯ Satisfaction with Textbooks Issued by the Ministry of Education
%A Shan-Yuan Chuang
%A Lung-Sheng Lee
%J Journal of Textbook Research
%D 2011
%I National Academy for Educational Research
%X The objectives of this study were to investigate junior high school science and technology (S&T) teachers¡¯ satisfaction levels in regard to the framework and content of volume one of the national S&T textbook for junior high school students and to examine differences based on demographic variables of the teachers. To achieve these objectives, a questionnaire with 184 items was mailed to all 56 junior high schools that selected the national S&T textbook. The following conclusions were made based on the survey results: (1) The gender, major, teaching experience, and educational background of teachers did not affect their satisfaction with the national textbook; (2) Teachers were moderately satisfied with the ¡°framework,¡± ¡°content attributes,¡± ¡°teaching attributes¡± and ¡°readability¡± of the national textbook; (3) Teachers tended to be more satisfied with the ¡°physical attributes¡± of the national textbook; (4) The framework of the national textbook needs to better planned to provide more appropriate learning content and order; (5) The content of the national textbook could be improved by enhancing the integration of rationale, and the completeness, logicality, and relation to life of content; (6) The national textbook could be improved by planning instructional goals, learning activities, evaluations, and auxiliary learning materials; (7) The content of the national textbook could be improved with more appropriate illustrations, characters, fonts, interesting headings, and appropriate sentence structure.
%K science and technology
%K textbook
%K satisfaction
%U http://ej.nict.gov.tw/JTR/v04.1/J06v04n01-03.pdf