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The purpose of this study was to identify the major problems that teachers perceived in implementing specialized vocational high school education. Specialized vocational high schools are promoted as the main national policy to improve vocational education and strongly supported by the Ministry of Ed...

The purpose of this study was to identify the major problems that teachers perceived in implementing specialized vocational high school education. Specialized vocational high schools are promoted as the main national policy to improve vocational education and strongly supported by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. The Delphi technique for obtaining group consensus was employed to achieve the objective of this study. A panel was composed of 18 head teachers as expert participants selected purposively from 22 specialized vocational high schools which were established over 5 years after transferring as a specialized system. Each panel participant received questionnaires to fill-up through e-mail and responded to it. Three sets of questionnaires were prepared by the researchers. The first questionnaire was an open style to express freely each one"s opinion on problems related to specialized vocational education. The second and the third questionnaires composed of questions on scale using the Likert type. Several problems were identified. Problems related to specialized vocational high school students were as follows: ① Most of the students want to go to college/university instead of entering the workplace, ② Generally, they are from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background. ③ It is difficult to attract talented students, which has been a chronic problem for vocational high schools. Problems related to teachers were as follows: ① There are excessive clerical work for teachers ② It is difficult to recruit qualified and competent teachers for the specialized areas ③ Teachers are over-burdened with teaching too many hours of vocational classes. Problems related to the curriculum were as follows: ① There are few programs to benchmark specialized vocational education programs and ② There are no systematic assistance to improve basic academic skills of the students. Problems related to recognition were the following: ① Specialized vocational education carries an unfavorable image, ② There is a lack of parents" recognition of the specialized vocational education and ③ Middle school teachers do not have sufficient information or hold unfavorable perception of specialized vocational schools. Other problems identified include ① There are inadequate financial resources to operate the specialized education programs particularly in coping with student"s diversified needs and ② There is a lack of continuous governmental support for the specialized vocational education programs.

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