การวิเคราะห์ภาพลักษณ์ของอาชีวศึกษาตามทัศนะของนักเรียน : การวิจัยแบบผสมวิธี / วชิรวิทย์ ยางไชย = An analysis of the image of vocational education from the perspective of students : mixed methods research / Vachirawit Yangchai
To 1) analyze the image of vocational education from student opinion 2) make a comparative analysis of vocational education image from students who have different backgrounds 3) make a comparative analysis about the vocational education image from the perspective of students from various educational school backgrounds. This study is divided into two phases. Phase 1 analyzes qualitative data collected from focus groups via interviews. The number of participants is high enough to help successfully employ research tools and techniques. Phase 2 collects quantitative data from 1,338 samples. The data is collected via a tape recorder, focus group record and questionnaires. The data analysis is processed by the content analysis, descriptive statistics and F-test statistic in One-way ANOVA form. The results of this research: 1) The perception of secondary education students about vocational education image on 8 factors are at the moderate level. Factors contributing to better perception are principle curriculum followed by educational management, place and environment management, career opportunities, instructional media for education, headmaster and professors, vocational students and study aboard. 2) Students with different genders, grade point average (GPA), parents’ educational level, career and income show 0.05 point in statistical difference. The information processed shows that (1) Females have better opinion about vocational education image than males. (2) Students who receive higher GPA view vocational education image more favorably than students who receive lower GPA. (3) Lower secondary school students have more positive view towards vocational education image than upper secondary education students. (4) Parents who do not have postgraduate degrees view the image of vocational education more positive than parents with postgraduate degrees. (5) Parents who are employed in private sector perceive the image of vocational education better than those employed in public sector. (6) Parents with lower income have more positive view towards vocational education image than those with higher income.3) There is 0.05 point of statistical difference between high school students who have different types of school, the school place and several regions. This indicates that (1) Students from The opportunity schools receive better perception than students from secondary education schools under to the office of the basic education commission or those under the Office of the Private Education Commission. (2) Students from urban areas have better perception of vocational education image than those from rural areas. However, the College of Agriculture receives the same statistical point from both students from urban and rural (3) Students in the central region of Thailand have better perception towards the image of vocational education than students from other regions do. Students from the northeast region have the most positive opinion towards vocational education.
