Open AccessFACTORS AFFECTING SMP/MTs STUDENTS’MOTIVATION TO GO INTO VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN SLEMAN DISTRICT
Author(s) -
Kusworo Kusworo,
Soenarto Soenarto
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jurnal pendidikan teknologi dan kejuruan/jurnal pendidikan teknologi dan kejuruan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2477-2410
pISSN - 0854-4735
DOI - 10.21831/jptk.v23i2.12299
Subject(s) - vocational education , likert scale , psychology , scale (ratio) , population , mathematics education , descriptive statistics , sample (material) , medical education , pedagogy , statistics , mathematics , sociology , developmental psychology , geography , medicine , chemistry , demography , cartography , chromatography
This research aims to find out (1) motivation, (2) factors affecting motivation and (3) the most dominant factor affecting the motivation of Junior High School (SMP / MTs) students to Vocational Schools. This research belongs to cross-sectional survey. The population of this research is 12.037 of Grade VIII students from122 SMP/MTs at Sleman District. The research sample is 338 students who are taken randomly and proportionally. The instrument used is questionnaire with likert-scale and rating-scale. Data analysis techniques used are descriptive analysis, regression analysis and partial correlation analysis. Research results show that: (1) motivation of SMP/MTs students to go into Vocational School is good, the average is 73.40%; (2) factors affecting the motivation are social economic status of student’s parents, mass media, student’s environment, and students’ individual characteristics with 72.5% and the rest which is 27.5% is affected by other factors; (3)the most dominant factor is students’ individual characteristics, and then followed by mass media factor, social economic status of students’ parents and students’ environment.