Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice

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dc.contributor.authorFoo, Jyy Wei
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-14T07:29:00Z
dc.date.available2019-01-14T07:29:00Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.description.abstractAn understanding of the decision making process of post secondary education by students is needed for administrators to successfully recruit and retain students. This study seeks to provide research findings on Malaysian polytechnics’ students educational choices regarding Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) in terms of enrolment programme with students’ characteristics, academic credentials and decision making behaviour. Student characteristics, academic credentials and decision making behaviour were assessed via a self-report questionnaire; data included socioeconomic status (SES), educational aspirations, performance in secondary school, availability of desired programmes, employment opportunities, satisficing, decision difficulty and alternative search. A participant selection (quan- QUAL) explanatory sequential case study was carried out using a proportional stratified sampling technique. There are 643 students from Malaysian polytechnics who participated in this study. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the collected data. Descriptive, multi layer crosstabs, independent sample t test, logistic regression, rank biserial, chi-square tests and spearman's rho were conducted to analyse the data. The results suggest that majority of Malaysian Conventional Polytechnics students come from low socioeconomic status family background with low parental education level, low total household monthly income and performed averagely in their secondary school but have high educational aspirations regardless of their educational choice on TVET. There is also a moderate correlation between satisficing decision making behaviour and maximizing decision making behaviour. 40 first semester students enrolled in Malaysian conventional polytechnics in Terengganu were chosen as the participants of the qualitative study.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7557
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectDecision making behaviour ofen_US
dc.subjectMalaysian polytechnics studentsen_US
dc.titleAcademic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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