Impact of the Recommendation-and-Selection Entrance Mode on the Regional Distribution of Students and their Learning Achievement in a Junior College of Technology: A Case Study of Nan Kai Institute of Technology

Author: Tsong-Shin Sheu(Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Nan Kai Institute of Technology)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 50, No. 1
Date：April 2005
Pages：139-154
DOI：10.3966/2073753X2005045001007

Abstract：

The impact of new, non-exam-based recruitment and admissions modes on students and their parents has been discussed widely. However, the impact of these modes on educational institutions themselves has long been ignored. This paper tries to determine both the regional distribution of students and, after they have been admitted through a recommendation-and-selection entrance （RSE） mode, their learning achievement in a technology junior college. One question concerns the degree to which the regional distribution of students has been changed since the mode of RSE began to be one of the entrance-exam modes for admitting new students. Although analysis shows that the regional distribution of students in these cases has been changed, the local regionalization of regional distribution has the same effect in general. Further, are students recruited through the RSE mode always learning effectively? However, the findings of this study show that students recruited from RSE mode are learning less effectively than those from joint examination. If this is the case, does the major reason lie in their pre-existing learning capacity? The findings also reveal that due to their pre-existing weak foundation, students recruited through the RSE mode demonstrate poor learning achievement both in the initial and the following stages of admissions. The results of this research identify three phenomena: regionalization and localization, exclusiveness, and assimilation.

Keywords：technology junior college,recommendation-and- selection entrance mode, regional distribution,learning achievement

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