Variables to A Quality Learner of Technical College, Office of the Vocational Education Commission

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to study the quality level of the learners of Technical College; and 2) to study variables affecting learners’ quality of Technical College, Office of the Vocational Education Commission. The participants of this study were 100 students studying in technical colleges under the Office of the Vocational Education Commission in 2019. The instruments used in the study were (1) the result of vocational national education test, (2) the achievement of the learners, (3) the questionnaire for academic leadership, (4) the questionnaire for teacher's self-development, (5) the questionnaire for the professional learning community, (6) the questionnaire for management based on the learner, (7) the questionnaire for using the technology of teacher for learning management, and (8) the questionnaire for academic administration in integrating of sufficiency economy philosophy. Mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and path analysis analyzed the data. The findings of the study were: 1) the level of a student’s quality of technical colleges was at a high level of 39.73%, and 2) the desired characteristics of technical students were directly obtained from the instructional leadership director and child-centered learning management. These two variants interpreted that the variability of the desired characteristics of students was at 43% (R = 0.43), which shows a statistically significant at .01 level ( = 0.01). However, they were indirectly influenced by child-centered learning management and the usage of instructional technology from the teacher which was influenced by the instructional leadership director.