TY - GEN
T1 - An investigation of business and management cluster's students' motivation of taking technician certification at vocational high schools in central Taiwan
AU - Liao, Chin-Wen
AU - Lin, Sho Yen
AU - Chen, Hsuan Lien
AU - Lai, Chen Jung
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - The study aims to investigate factors that motivate Business and Management Cluster's students to take secondary technician certification of their majors. With the literature review, a questionnaire survey was adopted. In total, 878 questionnaires were sent out and a valid response rate was 80.30%. After collecting the entire questionnaires, statistical software packages were used to analyze the collected data. The results showed that teacher's instructions and students' increasing sense of achievement and self-confidence by obtaining certification were the two main motivations students hold. Moreover, private school students' are much more motivated to obtain certifications than public school students. Based on the results, several suggestions are made as references for schools, teachers, parents and students.
AB - The study aims to investigate factors that motivate Business and Management Cluster's students to take secondary technician certification of their majors. With the literature review, a questionnaire survey was adopted. In total, 878 questionnaires were sent out and a valid response rate was 80.30%. After collecting the entire questionnaires, statistical software packages were used to analyze the collected data. The results showed that teacher's instructions and students' increasing sense of achievement and self-confidence by obtaining certification were the two main motivations students hold. Moreover, private school students' are much more motivated to obtain certifications than public school students. Based on the results, several suggestions are made as references for schools, teachers, parents and students.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-30867-3_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-30867-3_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866533492
SN - 9783642308666
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 275
EP - 281
BT - 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2012
Y2 - 11 July 2012 through 13 July 2012
ER -