Factor Analysis of Decision Making to further study in Vocational Certicate students at Uttaradit Technological College

Abstract

          This research objectives are as follows, 1.) To analyze factors affecting decision making to further study in Vocational Certificate students and 2.) To study opinions of factors affecting decision making to further study in Vocational Certificate students at Uttaradit Technological College.  Population used for the study are 1,211 current first to third year students, while sample size are 385 students.  Tool for this research are questionnaires, analytical statistics using Exploratory Factor Analysis: EFA.
          The study shows that factors affecting decision to enter Vocational education at Uttaradit Technological College can be classified into 6 factors with variance of 69.496%.  From validity analysis of all 86 variables, the first factor is attitude and occupation of students. The second factor is college’s brand image, followed by the third factor which is public relation. While the fourth factor is family and related personnel.  The fifth factor is course outline and the last sixth factor is execution.  The study shows attitude and occupation of students has the highest variance, calculated out to be 13.319, meaning it has the highest significant.