The purpose of this study is to present the actual state of private institute's education for school records and to indicate the relation between private institute's education and stress levels amongst elementary school students. Most elementary schoo...
The purpose of this study is to present the actual state of private institute's education for school records and to indicate the relation between private institute's education and stress levels amongst elementary school students. Most elementary school students taking private institute's develop social problems. The research problem for achieving this purpose are as follows:
First, how are the actual private institute's education for school record conditions of the elementary school students?
Second, how much does the influence different between private institute's education for a school record and for a talent or interest?
Third, how does the stress levels caused by private institute's education for school records differ in terms of learners' demographic factors(sex, grade, region, school record)?
Finally, how does the stress of private institute's education for a school record differ as their factors(what to take, length of course, choices, reason of taking lesson and so on)?
For the purpose of this study, the questionaire is distributed amongst 439 students in the 3~6 graders of elementary schools in Jeola Bukdo. The obtained data were analyzed using the methods of SPSS14.0, and the Frequency Analysis and Crosstabulation Analysis. The questionaire consist of 12 items about actual conditions of private institute's education, and 31 items about stress.
The results of this study were shown as follows.
First, most elementary school students are taking private institute's education to get a higher score. Private institute's education for school records of elementary school students are generalized, and it means that private institute's education causes lots of stress over school records.
Second, students who's taking private institute's education for school records, are more stressed in general-home life, school life, pursuit and personality-than other students. Educational extra activities causes more stress than those taken to develop personal talents and/or taken up as hobbies.
Third, Boys' stress levels were higher than that of girls. Students in higher grades get more stress in school life and pursuits. Regional differences show meaningful differences in not only stress, but every subordinate causes. Students who got lower academic scores, got more stress.
Finally, the stress of private institute's education for school records according to the factors, shows meaningful differences. Aside from study hours for private institute's education, students got more stress caused by increase the hours of private institute's education. In cases where students were chose their own private institute's education, their stress were lower than that of others. Students who's taking private institute's education to get higher scores or because of their parents' persuasion, got more stress than those who's taking it for preparation and review. It shows that students' will is the important thing when they study, and if there's a lack of aim or interest, it causes an increase of stress. Also, students who wants to take private institute's education further, got lower stress than others. It suggests that a positive attitude from elementary school student, towards private institute's education, will decrease stress levels.
Synthetically, there will be a change of appropriate amount, time, contents of private institute's education for elementary school students from now on. When we allow students to take private institute's education according to students' interests, talents, aptitude and levels, we can obtain the desired results. Furthermore, we can reduce the stress caused by private institute's education. And we have to provide the various educational programs to students to achieve their physical and mental development. Parents, schools, teachers and lecturers have to change their attitude to prevent students stress over private institute's education.