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From Pressure to Progress- Assessing the Impact of Taiwan's 108 Curriculum on Teen Mental Health

Figure 2. Has your academic pressure ever or is now worsen towards the state of depression?

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Delving into whether Taiwan’s education system, the one before the 108 new curriculum, is
the culprit of students’ depression and pressure, the team suggested that an education reform is
necessary. From the responses of the English version survey, none of the respondents rate their
academic pressure “extreme”, and only 33.3% graded “huge”, almost half of that of the Chinese
version’s 61.5% (Figure 3). Moreover, none of the respondents in the English version survey
regarded this pressure as an academic depression, which completely differs from that of the Chinese
version responses (Figure 4).
Figure 3. How would you rate your academic pressure? (Chinese version)

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Figure 4. Has your academic pressure ever or is now worsen towards the state of depression?

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Consequently, the new 108 curriculum was proposed to some degree alleviate these vicious
conditions of Taiwanese students. Indeed, 56.7% of the 157 respondents for this question
mentioned that the new 108 curriculum is quite different from the previous system (Figure 5).
However, the majority of reasons given revolve around the incompleteness of this nascent 108
curriculum that deleted several textbook concepts and replaced them with the “e-learning portfolio”.
In the free response question where students are asked about their thoughts on the new curriculum
and the e-learning profile in particular, around 97% of students responded negatively, and nearly
every one of them believe that e-learning portfolio wastes their learning time on academics and

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