Multi-level Factors Affecting the Professional Characteristics of Students at the Office of the Vocational Education Commission in the Three Southern Border Provinces

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to analyze multi-level factors affecting the professional characteristics of students at the office of the vocational education commission in the three southern border provinces. The samples used were 1,123 students in the second semester of the academic year 2016 and 205 teachers by multi-stage random sampling. The research instruments used in the study were 3 issues of 5 rating scale questionnaires. 1) questionnaire which was the priority professional characteristics factors of students 2) questionnaire which was the professional characteristics of students and 3) questionnaire which was the priority professional characteristics factors the professional characteristics of teacher. Analyze basic data uses average, standard deviation and multi-level analysis. The results analysis showed that the independent variables at the students’ levels and the college levels could explain the variance of the professional characteristics of the students was 77.3%. The independent variables at the college levels found that all factors did not correlate with the professional characteristics of the students at the office of the vocational education commission in the three southern border provinces. The independent variables at the students level were family factors and future work factors was statistically significant at the .01 level as for the curriculum and instruction factors were statistically significant at the .05 level.