Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice
An 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 E...
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| author | Foo, Jyy Wei |
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| description | An 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. |
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| spelling | usm-436462019-04-12T05:24:53Z http://eprints.usm.my/43646/ Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice Foo, Jyy Wei L7-991 Education (General) An 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. 2018-01 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/43646/1/FOO%20JYY%20WEI.pdf Foo, Jyy Wei (2018) Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia. |
| spellingShingle | L7-991 Education (General) Foo, Jyy Wei Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice |
| thesis_level | PhD |
| title | Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice |
| title_full | Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice |
| title_fullStr | Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice |
| title_short | Academic Credentials, Students’ Characteristics, Decision Making Behaviour Of Malaysian Polytechnics Students And Their Educational Choice |
| title_sort | academic credentials students characteristics decision making behaviour of malaysian polytechnics students and their educational choice |
| topic | L7-991 Education (General) |
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