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Table 3: A Comparison of the Three Groups of Interviewees'
Inclined Objectives of Involvement in Education Regard.
Regard Education Regard Education as Evangelization Extremely Important Very Important Quite Important Extremely Regard Very Regard Quite Regard Supervisors 4 0 2 0 7.69% 30.77% 0 38.46% 7.69% 15.38% 0 Principals 21 21 0 2 101% 33.87% 17.74% 33.87% 8.06% 3.23% 16.1% Teachers 1 13 24 X 3 2 47% 19.12% 35.29% 11.76% 4.41% 2.94% Overall 21% 26.57% 19.58% 34.97% 9.79% 4.9% 21%Table 4: A Comparison of the Three Groups of Interviewees'
Preference in Objectives and Their Mean Scores
Service to the Society Education for the Whole Person Evangelization Providing Christian Nurture among Students Principals (3.05) Principals (3.18) Supervisors (3.15) Teachers (3.25) Teachers (3.31) Teachers (2.19) Supervisors (3.15) Supervisors (2.23) Supervisors (1.46) Principals (2.37) Principals (3.40) Teachers (1.25)NOTES
5 The author wishes to express his gratitude to the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia which sponsored the present study. A full report of the study was published by the Theology Division, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. For details, see footnote 3 below.
The statistics are gathered from The Mid-March 1986 Statistical Summary Report (Hong Kong Government, 1986) and Resource Material for Civic Education, Vol. 30 Education (Hong Kong Christian Council, October 1986).
The interviewees were supervisors, principals, RE panel chairmen or teachers who may not have been members of the denominations or even if they were, what they said may not represent the viewpoints of the denominations. The views of the denominations in this study are therefore the interviewees' views. However, the findings in the survey do not vary much from the information extracted from literature review. This proves that the interviewees are representative of their denominations.
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