Attitude Difference between Advanced Level Students and Currently Joined Students towards the Technical and Vocational Education Sector in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.authorAmarasekara, K.A.I.M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-12T08:53:41Z
dc.date.available2021-02-12T08:53:41Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe government of Sri Lanka incurs considerable expenditure on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in the country and has made significant progress over the past decades through different strategies. Although this sector has been well organized to give opportunities up to degree level qualifications, the sector engages with three major problems such as low enrollment, high dropout rates, and a lower rate of job placement. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate whether there is a significant attitude difference between Advanced Level (A/L) students and currently joined students towards the TVET sector. Eighty (80) students in TVET Institutes and A/L students in Matara District were the populations of this study. The data was collected through a questionnaire from all four TVET institutes, 10 students from each TVET institute and 10 students from each Educational zone covering all four educational zones. Independent Simple T-Test was used to compare the attitude difference between the students in two streams. According to the results, there was a change in variance between two groups but there was no significant difference in group means. The standard deviation of attitude of currently joined students was 0.52 and A/L students was 0.83. Accordingly, A/L students are having higher variance than the students who follow TVET programs. This indicated that currently joined students are having less variance towards attitudes in following TVET programs. Since A/L students are having a higher variance in their attitudes towards TVET than currently joined students, TVET sector needed to introduce appropriate actions and programs to change the A/L students thinking pattern and make a positive image on TVET. Keywords: Attitudes, Technical and vocational education, TVETen_US
dc.identifier.isbn9789550481293
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.erepo.lib.uwu.ac.lk/bitstream/handle/123456789/6032/proceeding_oct_08-389.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUva Wellassa University of Sri Lankaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;International Research Conference
dc.subjectHumanities & Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectSocial Scienceen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectVocational Educationen_US
dc.titleAttitude Difference between Advanced Level Students and Currently Joined Students towards the Technical and Vocational Education Sector in Sri Lankaen_US
dc.title.alternativeInternational Research Conference 2020en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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