Factors Influencing the Acquisition of Employability Skills by Students of Selected Technical Secondary School in Malaysia

Autor/inn/en	Dania, Jovinia; Bakar, Ab Rahim; Mohamed, Shamsiah
Titel	Factors Influencing the Acquisition of Employability Skills by Students of Selected Technical Secondary School in Malaysia
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 7 (2014) 2, S.117-124 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employment Potential; Job Skills; Skill Development; Secondary School Students; Vocational Education; Gender Differences; Extracurricular Activities; Industrial Education; Student Participation; Career Development; Self Concept; Multiple Regression Analysis; Questionnaires; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Produktive Fertigkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Sekundarschüler; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Berufsentwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Fragebogen
Abstract	The main purpose of the study was to assess the acquisition of employability skills by vocational students in Malaysia. A total of 214 students participated in the study. We used the SCANS instrument to assess vocational students' employability skills. The overall mean of vocational secondary students' employability skills was 3.81 (SD = 0.34). Students' employability skills were found to be correlated with gender (r[subscript pb] = -0.172, p = 0.012), industrial training (r[subscript pb] = 0.137, p = 0.046), involvement in extracurricular activities (r = 0.177, p = 0.010), participation in career development activities (r = 0.218, p = 0.001) and self-concept (r = 0.429, p = 0.000). We used a step-wise multiple regression to determine the variables that best predict students' acquisition of employability skills. We found that three variables (self-concept, participation in career development activities, and industrial training) explained 23.1% of the total variance in the acquisition of employability skills, with self-concept being the main predictor (ß = 0.39), followed by participation in career development activities (ß = 0.29), and industrial training (ß = 0.19). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01