大台北地區國民中學電腦課程內涵之研究

[[abstract]]Abstract The main purposes of this study were to Investigate and analyze the degree of importance for the content of junior high school computer curriculum. According to the results of the research, the researcher set forth recommendations that concerning about the selection of content for the computer curriculum for schools and teachers to consider. This study made use of Delphi method to accomplish the research objectives. The researcher collected related documents and carried out an analytical investigation questionnaire. This questionnaire “The Content of Public Junior School Computer Curriculum,” carried out Delphi three times for the expert team. The expert team is consisted of 6 computer educational professors and 6 public junior high school computer teachers. The Mean, Median, and Quartile Deviation for the data obtained from the survey were used to assess the degree of importance for each question item as well as the circumstances of the centralization or dispersal of the opinions. The results obtained from the final questionnaire utilized the One Sample Test of Kolmogorov-Smironov for the testing in order to find out whether or not the experts’ and teachers’ viewpoints on each question item had significant variations. The research results are listed below: 1. Computer technology as already blended into everyday life. Understanding basic computer operations is a basic ability for our nation’s current generation in moving towards an information society. 2. After going through the Delphi questionnaire three times, there were finally only 11 chapters with 34 units that were comparatively suitable for the current stage of junior high school computer curriculum. The total class time was set at 96 hours. 3. For those 4 units, the computer development, the explanation of computer BIOS’s setting, standard unit, and databases, the content was relatively hard and not suitable for the current stage of junior high school instruction. It would be more suitable to be arranged for senior high school computer curriculum. Finally, in accordance with the research findings, recommendations will be addressed for the junior high schools, and the junior high schools’ teachers. Keywords: junior high school, computer curriculum, Content of Curriculum, Delphi