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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 42-106
Full Name: Sheng-Mao Chang
Position: Associate Professor
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Sex: Male
Address: Department of Industrial Technology Education National Kaohsiung Normal University Yanchao Campus : No.62, Shenjhong Rd., Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County 824, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Country: TAIWAN
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Title of the Paper: Comparison of Curriculum Standards of Elementary School Technology Education between Taiwan and the United States ---An Analysis Based on Knowledge Dimension of Bloom¡¦s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Revised Version)
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Sheng-Mao Chang, Ming-Zong Huang, Chung-Shan Sun
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Number of paper pages: 15
Abstract: Taking the knowledge dimension of Bloom¡¦s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Revised Version) as the mainstream of analysis, and adopting descriptive statistics, the paper investigates from Taiwan¡¦s Grade 1~9 Nature and Technology area the items and contents of technology-related competence standards, reviews the document of ¡§Standards for Technological Literacy (STL): Content for the Study of Technology¡¨ completed by Technology for All Americans (TfAA) Project in 2000[6], and then makes an overall evaluation and analysis of the 4 general types and 11 minor types in knowledge dimension. As found in the research results, among the 7 major technology-related standard categories of Taiwan¡¦s elementary schools, ¡§metacognitive knowledge¡¨ occupies the highest proportion (40%). As to the 20 major standard categories of STL for the technology education of the American elementary schools, ¡§conceptual knowledge¡¨ occupies the highest proportion (36.6%). In Taiwan!
, the curriculum standards of technology education are included in the level-based competence standards for the learning area of Grade 1~9 Nature and Technology; but in the United States, the STL of the American elementary schools proposed in TfAA Project are independently presented. At the stage of elementary education, there are 109 items of STL in the United States, but only 70 items of technological literacy standards in Taiwan. Besides, ambiguous sentences are found in the technological education standards of Taiwan. Ten of the technological literacy standards can be even categorized in the area of sentiment standard. Finally, the study rearranges the research findings and gives suggestions, which are expected to serve as a basis for the related technology teachers in setting up their instructional goals, devising instructional activities and designing evaluation of their students, and are hoped to be referential for analysis in the later days.
Keywords: Competence standard, Technology, Bloom¡¦s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Revised Version)
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