A Study of Junior High School Tutors\' Guidance Beliefs

However, domestic studies on tutors’ underlying beliefs have not been found in Taiwan. This study investigated the guidance beliefs of junior-high-school tutors by clinically interviewing twenty junior-high-school tutors from Taipei Metropolitan, Kaohsing Metro-politan, and Taiwan Province.

Then based on the analysis of the data collected from interview, a scale of junior-high-school tutors\' guidance beliefs was developed and was used to measure two hundred and fifty tutors from area of middle Taiwan. The following are five points of conclusion based on data collected from interview: 1.most subjects thought that the variety of problems of junior-high-school education were closely related to change of society and family; but schools and teachers were also responsible for those problems; 2.all subjects agreed that nowadays students were more ego centrism, more active, less conformable, and less trust than their counterpartner of ten or twenty years ago. 3.most subjects committed physical punish-ment, and believed that it was the most powerful way to stop misbehavior; some subjects enjoyed the job as a tutor with confidence and self-efficacy; some suffered from the feeling of burn-out and unsafety; 4.some more studies should be conducted to verify the relationship among tutors\' personality, characteristics of class, tutors\' experience as tutors, and support from school administration departments; 5.some more studies should be conducted to validate the structure of tutors\' beliefs, such as beliefs on human nature, educational philosophy, and self efficacy.