Direction of students to the vocational high school and vision of student related to education process

DIRECTION OF STUDENTS TO THE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ANDVISION OF STUDENT RELATED TO EDUCATION PROCESS(M.Sc. Thesis)Ebru AKKAYAGAZI UNIVERSITYINSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYApril 2006ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to investigate the reason for choosing ofstudents, graduated from primary school, to the Vocational High School(VHS) and its departments and evaluation of the problems that studentsfaced. Fort his purpose, a questionnaire has been prepared and carriedout on 977 students in Ankara at four different VHS. Results werwanalyzed by using a SPSS (The Statistical packet fort he SocialSciences) statistical programme. In order to determine the opinions ofstudents, frequency (f) and percentages were used.The results showed that only 15 % of the students was directed to theVHS by their primary school teachers. The others were directed to theVHS by the effect of society and their parents or themselves. Preferringreasons for departments were due to the popularity of profession, ideaof finding the job easily or directing by society.When analyzing of students opinion related to their department andtheir vocational education, it was observed that they were complainingabout the insufficient education level for university exam and alsounjust coefficient factor for choosing the faculties.After graduation, 30 % of the students wanted to g oto vocationalcollage without exam and 44 % wanted to take a bachelor degree at theuniversity. The latter wanted to g oto university in order to obtainfurther practical and the oretical educations, developing their carrierand obtaining beter jobs.It was observed that the 3 year students did not find what they hadexpected during their VHS registration.Science Code : 710Key Words : Vocational Education, Teknical Education,Student Directing, Vocational High SchoolPage Number : 132Adviser : Associate Professor Yusuf ÖZCATALBAS