Using Engagement Activity to Enhance the Intention to Persist of Vocational Students
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The drop-out rate represents a significant problem for vocational education in Thailand. In 2017, the dropout rate of vocational student after 1st year was about 20%, which was very high number. A successful use of engagement activity in classroom would encourage the intention to persist of students in the school and lead to a decrease in the drop-out rate of students. The purpose of this study were: (a) to compare the students’ achievement gained before and after using engagement activity; and (b) to study the students’ satisfaction after using engagement activity. The theories of Project-Based Learning (PjBL) and Socrative application were adapted in engagement activities. The research was quasi-experimental research by using one group pretest-posttest design. The samples were 30 people of 1st year vocational students from Ratchasittharam Technical College, Bangkok. They were in the 1st semester of the academic year 2019. The data analysis was based on statistic, mean, standard deviation (S.D.), relative gain score.
The research results were summarized as follows:
- 1. post-test score of the test was higher significantly than pre-test score (p < .01).
- 2. the results showed that students' satisfaction with using Socrative application was the highest level ( = 4.53, S.D. = 0.903).
The results of this study have implied that using engagement activity are important for educational planning to develop the competency of vocational students, because it would enhance the intention to persist of students, which is associated with decreasing drop-out rates of students in the Thai vocational education system.
Keywords - students’achievement, students’ satisfaction, engagement activity, intention to persist of students
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สงวนสิทธิ์ โดย สถาบันการอาชีวศึกษาภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ 1
306 หมู่ 5 ถนนมิตรภาพ หนองคาย-อุดรธานี ตำบลโพธิ์ชัย อำเภอเมืองหนองคาย จังหวัดหนองคาย 43000
โทร 0-4241-1445,0-4241-1447
ISSN : 3027-6861 (print) ISSN : 3027-687X (online)
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