The protection of education funding has been one of the characteristics in Taiwan, but we don't have an academic reason for that. Therefore, we use cost function approach that is popular with foreign scholars and legislators to fulfill the incomplete part and take the elementary schools in Taipei for example to estimate the adequate funding. We find that school size and funding efficiency would affect adequate funding. The less school size, the more adequate funding they will need to attain the same student achievement compared with the same school size. However, if those schools use resource efficiently, the adequate funding can be reduced by 14% to 36%. We also find that the cause of not reaching adequate funding maybe lack funding or use resource inefficiently. We offer three recommendations and expect we can estimate the adequate funding for whole elementary schools in Taiwan after national education database is founded.
This study is concerned with the current job preparation programmes for special education students in Taiwan. Two hundred and three randomly selected special education teachers in Northern Taiwan responded to a questionnaire about job-related social skills. The relationship between teachers’ demographic characteristics and their teaching of job-related social skills was examined. In general, teachers’ pedagogical practices were found to focus more on the basic job-related social skills (such as proper attire, hygiene, punctuality and attendance) than on the advanced job-related social skills (such as cooperation and emotion management). Interestingly, teachers with a special education degree tended to nurture both dimensions of job-related social skills. Additionally, teacher experience was found to be a key contributor to the teaching of job-related social skills, with less experienced teachers more likely to downplay the teaching of such skills.
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