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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON MATHEMATICS
Transactions ID Number: 29-804
Full Name: Lung-Hsing Kuo Kuo
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 116 Ho-Ping 1st Rd., Kaohsiung Taiwan, R.O.C.
Country: TAIWAN
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E-mail address: admi@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw
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Title of the Paper: A Study of the In-service Hot Spot and Attendance Model of Professional Development
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Lung-Hsing Kuo
Email addresses of all the authors: admi@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw
Number of paper pages: 12
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to present a way to identify the in-service hot spot and create an attendance model based upon the profile information and distance away from the hot spot. Empirical data was gathered for verifying purpose. It was argued that distance for joining professional development could be a factor affecting the attendance. The research data were collected from 9824 senior high school teachers who attended in-service advancement education activities from January to November in 2008. The teachers' profile information was collected from ¡§Nationwide Teacher In-service Education Information Web¡¨ (http://inservice.edu.tw/) database. And then Google Earth was drawn upon to get the latitude and longitude of each teacher¡¦s working site and the Discipline Centers¡¦ sites in which teachers attended in-service advancement education activities to obtain the straight distance. Besides, the TWD67 system¡Xthe Route Guide System devised by Institute of Trans!
portation, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Taiwan, R.O.C. was applied to obtain the distance by road. The descriptive statistics, t-tests, and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The results of the study indicated that ¡§hot spots¡¨ of in-service advancement education activities which were held by Discipline Centers and which senior high school teachers attended were mainly located in Taipei City and Kaohsiung City. A total of ten background variables of teachers were examined to compare mean group differences (gender, age, educational background, marital status, additionally administrative duty, first registered specialty, total of in-service teachers' registered specialties, school type, school size, and school location). There were differences in the straight distance and distance by road among teachers¡¦ age, educational background, marital status, first registered specialty, total of in-service teachers' registered specialties, school type, scho!
ol size, and school location.
Keywords: In-service Hot Spot, Professional Development, Attendance, High School Curriculum Guideline, Discipline Centers, In-service advancement education, straight distance, distance by road
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