The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of two factors on school adjustment: participating in education welfare program and the characteristics of participation(the number of programs and the joining period)
For this research, the su...
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of two factors on school adjustment: participating in education welfare program and the characteristics of participation(the number of programs and the joining period)
For this research, the survey was done aiming at 1245 students(2nd and 3rd grade) in 8 middle schools( 5 in the program and 3 out of the program) in Jun-ju, Ik-san, Gun-san in Jeon-Buk Province. And among them, 242 students were analyzed including 126 in schools in the program and 116 in schools out of the program by descriptive statistics, Chi-squre, t-test, Anova, correlative analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
The major results of this study are as follow:
First, to look into the effect of participating in education welfare program on school adjustment, this study compare students receiving launch-support in two kinds of schools(in and out of education welfare program) in terms of school adjustment. As a result, it is shown that whether participating or not in edu-welfare program has an positive effect on class adjustment, school circumstance adjustment and no effect on whole school adjustment, grade, emotional adjustment, behavioral adjustment. That is, the students in schools adjustment in the program tend to have high ability in class preparation, class participation, class understanding and accept the school environment and control their needs appropriately.
Second, this study looked into school adjustment aiming at the students in the participating schools in terms of the influence of participation characteristics( the number of programs, joining period) on school adjustment. The result shows that the more programs the school takes part in, the more negative effect on grades, the more positive effect on emotional adjustment(school life satisfaction), behavioral adjustment(rule observation and responsibility), and no effect on whole school adjustment, class adjustment, school circumstance adjustment. Also, it is drawn that the longer the period of participation is, the more positive effect on emotional adjustment(school life satisfaction), behavioral adjustment(rule observation and responsibility), and no effect on whole school adjustment, academic adjustment(class, grade), school circumstance adjustment.
The significances of this study are as follow:
First, it shows the short-term effect of education welfare program at school adjustment, which was concluded from the comparison of low-income students in two kinds of schools(participating in the program and out of the program).
Second, it has significance in terms of two points:
For one thing, it makes clear that students needs to take part in and experience various programs in the long term for the success of education welfare program.
For another, it provides basic data of interference strategy and methods for school adjustment for low-income students.