Affecting Factor to Continue Studying Vocational Certificate Level of Machine Shop Certificate in Technical College under the Committee of Eastern Vocation Office
Abstract:
This research is aimed at studying affecting factor to continue studying in vocational certificate
level of machine shop certificate in technical college under the committee Eastern Vocation
Office covering 10 technical institute. In this study , stratified random sampling was used for
limiting size of sample in each stratum. With this procedure , it has 394 students as research sample.
The instrument used in this research was questionnaires to study the affecting factor to continue
studying. Statistics of percentage , mean , and standard error of mean, t-test, and one way analysis of
variance were used to examine the data. Results showed that students want to continue studying in
vocational certificate level of machine shop certificate in technical college in high level. Factors
affected to continue studying in high level were student' s need , student' s expectation, college, and
interesting of their skill. Moreover, factors that affected significantly to continue study were
GPA, number of siblings under parent control at the level of .05.