Preference of Furthering Studies in Vocational Education System, An Empirical Analysis of Questionnaires

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10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_11How to use a DOI?

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Pursue bachelor degree after graduation in the higher vocational college; Preference questionnaire; Higher vocational college; Vocational education

Abstract

It is a phenomenon that students in the vocational education system further their studies for higher level of degrees in the developed countries. With a purpose to understand the preference together its influencing factors of whether the students further their studies for the bachelor degrees in the universities in China, this paper carried a questionnaire with an empirical analysis by decision tree method targeting the students being enrolled in the higher vocational colleges, most of which are located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The questionnaire includes questions of personal and family characteristics, preference/reasons/concerns of pursuing bachelor degrees in universities, daily courses and capability cultivation, gains in the internship. The results in the questionnaire concludes that the students feel difficult in learning courses related to mathematics, English languages, and technical courses in theory. This research also finds students’ incompetency in these three types of courses, which are also the ones they would like to improve in the universities after they are approved for bachelor degrees. It is recommended that the higher vocational college should strengthen these three categories of courses, especially to those students who plan to pursue their bachelor degrees in the universities after graduation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Gong
AU  - Qin Luo
AU  - Xiongfei Zhang
AU  - Cheng Zhu
AU  - Wei Huang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/11/29
TI  - Preference of Furthering Studies in Vocational Education System, An Empirical Analysis of Questionnaires
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Sport Science, Education and Social Development (SSESD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 82
EP  - 90
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_11
ID  - Gong2022
ER  -