The purpose of this study was to investigate the reality of physics curriculum/learning in the universities of technology in Taiwan. It should be noticed, university of technology (UT) in Taiwan is categorized to vocational education system. Therefore, in physics learning, the performance of UT students should be something different from general university (GU) students. This study involved a survey, comprised of four sets of questionnaires concerning attitude toward physics, learning motivation, self-efficacy and learning states were investigated. Four instruments (Motivation toward learning test, Attitude toward physics test, Self-efficacy about learning test, Learning states test) were adopted in this study. The participants in this study were 3031 freshmen, and were sampled randomly from 12 UT in Taiwan. Participants were categorized as three groups by their majors-electricity and machines group (EMG), information engineering group (IEG), and other engineering group (OEG). Furthermore, in order to explore the differences between GU students and UT students in physics learning, another 249 engineering college students from a mid-level general university were selected randomly as the contrast group (CG). After data analysis, some interesting research findings were discussed and will be suggested to the practice of physics curriculum design in university of technology.
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