The Influencing Factors of College Students’ intention in selecting Elective Courses
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The purpose of this study was to explore 1) study the teacher's experience and ability (External factor) and 2) study students' enthusiasm for participating in the classroom (Internal Factor). The quantitative analysis was used in this study. Four hundred samples were selected from a certain Chinese university. The sample size of this study is based on Taro Yamane formula with 95% confidence level for minimum number of samplings. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, One-way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study showed that 1) ability of teachers had a relatively large impact on students' choice of courses, and efforts should be made to improve the teaching ability of teachers and 2) the enthusiasm of students to participate in the classroom had little influence on students' choice of courses while the experience.
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