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Tien, Hsiu-Lan Shelley – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between vocational interests and work values among 206 adults in Taiwan. The instruments were the Career Interest Inventory developed based on Holland's RIASEC typology and the Work Value Inventory developed based on Super's theory. The results of multivariate analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation
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Chien, Tien-Chen; McLean, Gary N. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: This study aims to explore the intercultural training needs for US business expatriates on assignment in Taiwan. The study assesses Taiwan culture-specific training needs of US expatriates from the perspectives of both US expatriates and their Taiwanese colleagues and compares the perceived importance of these intercultural training needs…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Educational Needs, Interpersonal Communication, Foreign Workers
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Larson, Lisa M.; Wei, Meifen; Wu, Tsui-Feng; Borgen, Fred H.; Bailey, Donna C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Big Five personality factors, measured by the NEO Personality Inventory Five-Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992), and vocational confidence across Holland's hexagon, measured by the Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI; Betz, Borgen, & Harmon, 2005), were useful in discriminating among…
Descriptors: Personality, Self Efficacy, Vocational Interests, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Hsien-Yung; Silverman, Stephen – Sport, Education and Society, 2006
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the educational value orientations of physical education teachers in Taiwan, and the relationships of gender, teaching experience, grade level, and the locations in which they work. Value orientations were measured with the Value Orientation Inventory-2, which was translated into complicated Chinese for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods
Tien, Hsiu-Lan; Hood, Albert B. – 1994
This paper describes a study designed to test the generalizability of Holland's hexagonal model of vocational interest structure in a Chinese culture. It was hypothesized that the results of multidimensional scaling would support Holland's hexagonal model of vocational interests. The instrument used was the Chinese Vocational Interest Inventory.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research
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Hu, Reping; Chang, Wen-Hua; Lin, Chen-Yung – Journal of Biological Education, 2003
This study examines the curriculum components in biology favoured by high school students in Taiwan. Our sample consisted of 155 senior high school students (51 boys and 104 girls) and 137 junior high school students (74 boys and 63 girls). The questionnaire was based on the idea of a repertory grid technique and was developed to investigate the…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Science Curriculum
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Bates, Eric T.; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2004
This research investigated the impact of personalizing mathematical word problems using individual student interests on student problem-solving performance. Ten word problems were selected randomly from a mathematics textbook to create a series of two assessments. Both assessments contained problems exactly as they appeared in the textbook and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Textbooks, Student Interests, Interest Inventories