Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors?
The objective of the study was to predict students’ decision to enroll for a doctoral program at the Faculty of Educational Studies. A discriminant analysis was conducted to investigate the predictors that influence a student’s decision to enroll for a doctoral program. The predictors investigated w...
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The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
2009
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| description | The objective of the study was to predict students’ decision to enroll for a doctoral program at the Faculty of Educational Studies. A discriminant analysis was conducted to investigate the predictors that influence a student’s decision to enroll for a doctoral program. The predictors investigated were job factors, personal factors, program factors, social factors, satisfaction, and academic performance. The overall Wilk’s Lambda was significant, Λ = 0.87, Chi-Square (6, n = 117) = 15.99, p = 0.014. This indicated that the predictors were significantly different among groups of student who plan to enroll for a doctoral program (Group 1) and those who do not (Group 2). Of the total 117 students, 90 (76%) were classified correctly. |
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| spelling | upm-69702015-09-02T02:59:40Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6970/ Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? Bakar, Ab. Rahim Mohamed, Shamsiah Mat Rashid, Abdullah The objective of the study was to predict students’ decision to enroll for a doctoral program at the Faculty of Educational Studies. A discriminant analysis was conducted to investigate the predictors that influence a student’s decision to enroll for a doctoral program. The predictors investigated were job factors, personal factors, program factors, social factors, satisfaction, and academic performance. The overall Wilk’s Lambda was significant, Λ = 0.87, Chi-Square (6, n = 117) = 15.99, p = 0.014. This indicated that the predictors were significantly different among groups of student who plan to enroll for a doctoral program (Group 1) and those who do not (Group 2). Of the total 117 students, 90 (76%) were classified correctly. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6970/1/Decision%20to%20enroll%20in%20post.pdf Bakar, Ab. Rahim and Mohamed, Shamsiah and Mat Rashid, Abdullah (2009) Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 4 (1). pp. 147-156. http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.714 English |
| spellingShingle | Bakar, Ab. Rahim Mohamed, Shamsiah Mat Rashid, Abdullah Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? |
| title | Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? |
| title_full | Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? |
| title_fullStr | Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? |
| title_short | Decision to enroll in post-graduate education: What are the predictors? |
| title_sort | decision to enroll in post-graduate education: what are the predictors? |
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