The aims of this study are : (1) to explore development of elder educational policy in Taiwan; (2) to analyze the recent situation of the practice of senior citizens' education and trends for development ;(3) to investigate the practical opinions of the relevant researchers on the senior citizens' education; (4) to analyze the different opinions of senior education workers; and (5) and to provide suggestions as a reference for teachers, schools, educational administration and future researchers related with elder education. The research mainly relies on questionnaire surveys as well as the result of interview with research samples selected from elder learner, teachers, administers, volunteers and professional researchers in the field of elder education. To achieve these purposes, a questionnaire was developed to survey on 1383 questionnaire throughout Taiwan area, 1138 effective samples that were actually acquired. The data of questionnaires had been processed for statistical analysis under the "SPSS" statistics packaging software 18.0 for windows. The obtained data was analyzed by item analysis, factors analysis, frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, percentage, t-test, one-way ANONA. Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions are drawn: 1. The indicators of CIPP model include four perspectives consisting of 15 main indicators and 45 sub-indicators. The real conditions among samples appear middle-low' level. 2. The government has to unify the sources of the budget, places, and facilities. 3. The course of the senior citizens' education should be combined with the learning needs of the senior citizens. 4. The teachers' selection of the senior citizens' education should be focused on their specific skills teaching elder people. 5. The government has to manage to improve the courses, teaching materials and teachers' qualifications of the senior citizens' education. 6. There should be an elastic standard of the pace of recruiting students and fees. 7. County and city governments need to evaluate the learning needs of the senior citizens reach an agreement and form a policy. 8. The government has to use every kind of ways to propagandize the idea of the equal opportunity for the senior citizens and common people to make use of the teaching resources of the schools. 9. The government must do its best to guide and evaluate the effects of implementation. 10. The government has to combine the local sources and the multi-media when we propagandize the activities. According to the results of research, this study intends to offer suggestions respectively on the aspects of practical application and future research, such as for educational administrations and organizations for elder people and future researchers.
