Abstract

The purpose of study was to explore the current status for special education program students’ vocational field practice in vocational high schools. Hopefully the results will be taken as the references in making field practice in the future. The main axis of this research is by questionnaires. The study adopted stratified random sampling technique based on the location of the school. The population came from 80 special classes of vocational schools in Taiwan area, and gains 54 schools via purposive sampling. The study chooses the “administrative personnel and coaching teachers” as the studying subjects, were investigated by using a self-developed questionnaire, with 348 surveys mailed,273 of which returned, and 78.4% being the rate of valid sampling. The results are summarized as follows: 1. It was best for school to start to arrange the vocational field practice for the junior grade students at the first semester; and it was appropriate for students to arrange the vocational field practice out of school 3 days per week. 2. It was most way to have students practice in generality and several separated vocational fields for special education program students’ vocational field practice. 3. The order of the top five jobs for vocational field practice were bakery, car washing, waiters and waiters in the restaurants, clerks in the convenient stores and wrapping workers. 4. The top three difficulties in vocational field practice were the difficulty in finding proper jobs to practice, being refused because of the degree of disability and incompetence. 5. Vocational field practice from special classes of vocational schools was good. 6. There were insignificant differences in the variables of teachers’ gender, academic degree, category, duty, specialized background, school area, school location, special classes seniority and install vocational guidance personnel on the vocational field practice from special classes of vocational schools.