Antecedents Of Students Intention To Study Abroad Higher Education - An Empirical Research In Viet Nam.pdf

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UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business Lê Thị Hồng An ANTECEDENTS OF STUDENTS’ INTENTION TO STUDY ABROAD IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN VIETNAM MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2014 UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business Lê Thị Hồng An ANTECEDENTS OF STUDENTS’ INTENTION TO STUDY ABROAD IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN VIETNAM ID: 22120041 MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) SUPPERVISOR: DR LE NGUYEN HAU Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2014 Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor - Dr Le Nguyen Hau, who has given me great guidance, valuable advice, suggestions that helping me in implementing this study I would also like to express my sincere thanks to ISB Research Council who gave valuable recommendations throughout my thesis’s periods as well as all professors, tutors and officers of ISB - MBus Program for academic knowledge and assistance throughout the program at International School of Business Last but not least, I am grateful to Principals, Vice Principals and teachers at Saigon International College, Nguyen Thuong Hien high school, Le Quy Don high school and Gia Dinh high school for their advice and support in collecting the information Without their support, I could not complete my thesis Thank you, Le Thi Hong An i Table of content List of Tables iv List of Figures v ABBREVIATIONS vi ABSTRACT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND 1.1.1 Studying abroad in higher education in Vietnam 1.1.2 Existing studies about factors that impact on study oversea intention 1.2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE 1.3 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.5 THESIS’S ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 2: LITERATURES REVIEW AND HYPOTHESES 2.1 LITERATURES REVIEW 2.1.1 An overview about the Theory of Planned Behavior 2.1.2 Intention 11 2.1.3 Attitude toward the behavior 12 2.1.4 Subjective norm 13 2.1.5 Perceived behavioral control 14 2.2 RESEARCH MODEL 15 2.3 HYPOTHESES 16 2.4 SUMMARY 16 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHOD 17 3.1 RESEARCH PROCEDURE 17 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN 19 3.2.1 Measurement Scales 19 3.2.2 Selection of Method Research 22 3.2.3 Measurement Refinement 23 3.2.4 Questionnaire Design 24 3.3 MAIN STUDY AND DATA COLLECTION 24 3.3.1 3.3.2 Sampling and sample 24 Data analysis 25 ii CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS 27 4.1 DATA STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 27 4.2 MEASUREMENT SCALES ASSESSMENT 28 4.2.1 Reliability Test 28 4.2.2 Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) 31 4.2.3 Correlation 35 4.2.4 Adjusted Model And Hypotheses 37 4.3 HYPOTHESES TESTING 38 4.3.1 Assumption of Multiple Regression 38 4.3.2 Hypotheses testing 39 4.4 DISCUSSION 42 4.5 SUMMARY 43 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS 45 5.1 MAIN FINDINGS 45 5.2 IMPLICATIONS 46 5.2.1 Managerial implication 46 5.2.2 Theoretical implications 47 5.3 LIMITATIONS 47 5.4 CONCLUSION 48 REFERENCES 49 APPENDICES 52 Appendix A: Questionnaire (Vietnamese Version) 52 Appendix B: Questionnaire (English Version) 55 Appendix C: KMO and Bartlett's Test for Independent variables 58 Appendix D: Cronbach’s alpha Test for AIPI construct 58 Appendix E: Cronbach’s alpha Test for AIPP construct 59 Appendix F: KMO and Bartlett's Test for dependent variable 59 iii List of Tables Table 3.2: Measurement scales 20 Table 4-1: Data descriptive statistics 27 Table 4-2: Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients for each measurement scale 29 Table 4-3: Cronbach’ Alpha results after excluding unsatisfactory items 30 Table 4-4: Rotated Component Matrixa 32 Table: 4-5: Total Variance Explained of independent variables 33 Table 4-6: Total Variance Explained of dependent variable 34 Table 4-7: Representative variables 35 Table 4-8: Correlations between variables 36 Table 4-9: Hypotheses testing result (Model Summary, ANOVA, Coefficients) 39 iv List of Figures Figure 2.1: The theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991) 11 Figure 2.2: Research model 16 Figure 3.2: Research procedure 18 Figure 4.6: Adjusted model 37 v ABBREVIATIONS ELICOS: English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students VET: Vocational Education and Training TPB: Theory of Planned Behavior TRA: Theory of Reasoned Action ANOVA: Analysis Of Variance EFA: Explored Factor Analysis KMO: Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin SPSS: Statistical Package for Social Science vi ABSTRACT Higher education has become an increasingly competitive sector for developed foreign education The number of countries that are actively involved in international student recruitment has grown considerably It is important to gain a better understanding of the factors that influencing on intention to study overseas The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of key antecedents on intention of studying abroad in tertiary education of high school students in the context of Vietnam After pilot study, a quantitative research was utilized with a sample of 289 students in some high schools in Ho Chi Minh City The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used as a framework to understand the intention to study abroad Results indicate that the influences of attitude toward foreign education, advices of influential people and perceive behavioral control play significant role in predicting intention to study abroad of high school students Overall, the results of this study may help foreign education institutions develop a good understanding of Vietnamese students’ behavior in selecting an institution for studying in English – speaking countries Keywords: intention, theory of planned behavior, study abroad, higher education, Vietnamese students CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter I introduces a background and an overview of studying abroad in higher education in Vietnam as well as existing studies about factors that impact on study oversea intention The Introduction also specifies the research objectives, scope of this study and significance of the research Chapter I also provides an overview of all chapters that will be presented in this paper 1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND 1.1.1 Studying abroad in higher education in Vietnam According to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), over 100,000 Vietnamese students are studying abroad in 47 countries and territories Among them, about 90% is self-funded study Viet Nam has become a productive market for international institutions (Vietnamnet, 2013) International education is a growing export industry for many developed countries The US’ Open Doors 2011 report showed that the number of Vietnamese students in the country increased by 14% during the 2010-2011 academic year Vietnam ranks eighth among countries and territories sending students to the US, a considerable increase compared to the 20th place five years ago and around 72.1% of Vietnamese students in the US pursued tertiary education More and more Vietnamese apply for studying at the schools in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore and so on The list of the destination countries for Vietnamese students has been expanded (Dantri, 2012) A report of Australian Education International (2014) stated that following China and India, Vietnam is currently the third largest international student source market for Australia Among the higher education, ELICOS, VET and school sectors, the proportion of higher education sector is high with 44% ... important to gain a better understanding of the factors that influencing on intention to study overseas The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of key antecedents on intention of studying...UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business Lê Thị Hồng An ANTECEDENTS OF STUDENTS? ?? INTENTION TO STUDY ABROAD IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN. .. of planned behavior, study abroad, higher education, Vietnamese students CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter I introduces a background and an overview of studying abroad in higher education in Vietnam