Assessing the education and training strategy of selected colleges responding to the needs of highly qualified professional

i ASSESSING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING STRATEGY OF SELECTED COLLEGES RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Graduate School Bulacan State University City of Malolos In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management by QUACH VU December 2015 ii APPROVAL SHEET It is partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management This dissertation entitled ASSESSING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING STRATEGY OF SELECTED COLLEGES RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL had been prepared and submitted by QUACH VU who is hereby recommended for oral examination Adviser Approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management by the Committee on Oral Examination MARIANO C DE JESUS, Ed.D Chairman ROSALINDA MARCELINO, D.P.A Critic/Member NORMA C MORALA, Ed.D Member Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management VICTORIA P VALENZUELA, D.P.A Dean, Graduate School iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researcher would like to express my gratitude to all those who gave me the opportunity to complete this dissertation The researcher wants to thank the managers of the colleges for giving me permission to commence this dissertation, to the necessary research work and to use its data The researcher would like to give my special thanks to Dr Pham Hung Cuong for his support, stimulating suggestions and encouragement during the course of my research and writing of this dissertation The researcher is indebted to the managers of the companies who supported and gave valuable information for the study Without his cooperation, this study could not reach a good end The researcher would like to say honest thanks for the moral support of coworkers and encouragement Finally, the researcher owes everlasting gratefulness to my co-lecturers who gave patient support for my endeavors over the period of this study QUACH VU iv ABSTRACT This dissertation, entitled ASSESSING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING STRATEGY OF SELECTED COLLEGES RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL conducted during the period from 5/2013 to 10/2015 The research result showed that there were 400 students of Ca Mau Community college (CCC) interviewed and answered nearly 18 questions The researcher had analyzed KMO test, the result of KMO analysis used for multiple regression analysis Students are responses measured through an adapted questionnaire on a 5-point Likert scale Hard copy and interview students by questionnaire distributed among students of Ca Mau Community College The regression analysis result showed that there were three factors, which included of factors following lecturer, facilities, and programs affecting the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % In addition, the research result processed from SPSS 20.0 software The parameters of the model estimated by Least - Squares Method tested for the model assumption with 5% significance level At the same time, the result was also scientific evidence and important for researchers, and policy makers who apply them for developing the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title Page i Approval Sheet ii Acknowledgement iii Abstract iv Table of Contents v List of Tables viii List of Figures x CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction .1 Statement of the Problem Significance of the Study Scope and Delimitation of the Study II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Relevant Theories .7 Review of Related Literature 57 Review of Related Study 138 Conceptual Framework 151 Hypothesis of the Study 153 Definition of Terms .153 III METHODS OF RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUES OF THE STUDY vi Methods and Techniques of the Study 154 Population and Sample of the Study .154 Research Instrument 155 Data Gathering Procedure………………………………………………… 155 Data Processing and Statistical Treatment 155 IV PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA Sub-Problem No 1: 157 Sub-Problem No 2: 172 Sub-Problem No 3: 182 Sub-Problem No 4: 101 V SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Summary 195 Summary of Findings 195 Conclusions .196 Recommendations 197 BIBLIOGRAPHY Books 199 Periodicals .203 APPENDICES Appendix A – Questionnaire 206 vii Appendix B – Questions for the Interview .208 CURRICULUM VITAE viii LIST OF TABLES Table Page Factors affecting the quality of the education and training 173 Descriptive Statistics for the quality of the education and training 175 Descriptive Statistics for Gender situation .176 Descriptive Statistics for Age 176 Descriptive Statistics for the Students information 177 Descriptive Statistics for Study major 177 Results of analysis of Cronbach Alpha coefficients .178 KMO and Bartlett's Test for the quality of the education and training 179 Structure Matrix for factors for the quality of the education and training 180 10 Structure Matrix for the quality of the education and training .181 11 Testing for factors affecting the quality of the education and training 182 12 Bootstrap results based on 1500 bootstrap for the quality 186 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Gender situation .187 14 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Age 187 ix 15 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Students information 188 16 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about the Study major 188 x LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page Paradigm of the study for the quality of the education and training .151 Research model for factors affecting the quality of the education and training .152 Research processing for the quality of the education and training 156 The Result of the Regression for factors affecting the quality .184 The Result of the Regression Standardized Residual .185 184 Model summary analysis for factors affecting the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College LECTURER (β1 = 0.550, Sig = 0.00) THE QUALITY OF EQUIPMENT (β2 = 0.455, Sig = 0.00) THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING (Adjusted R2 = 67.5 %) PROGRAM (β3 = 0.080, Sig = 0.00) Figure 4: The Result of the Regression for factors affecting the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College Figure showed that the regression coefficients were positive This showed that the effects of independent variables are in the same direction to the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % 185 The Result of the Regression Standardized Residual for the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College Figure 5: The Result of the Regression Standardized Residual of the quality of the education and training Figure showed that the standardized residual of the quality of the education and training was normal distribution (Standard deviation = 995, nearly = ) 186 Table 12 Bootstrap results based on 1000 bootstrap for the quality of the education and training Bootstrap for Model Summary Mode DurbinBootstrapa l Watson Bias Std 95% Confidence Error Interval Lower Upper 1.723 -.564 085 995 1.333 a Unless otherwise noted, bootstrap results are based on 1500 bootstrap samples Bootstrap for Coefficients Model B Bootstrapa Bias Std Sig (295% Confidence Error tailed) Interval Lower Upper (Constant) -2.767E-016 -.001 039 1.000 -.077 074 X1 550 -.001 034 001 488 618 X2 455 -.001 037 001 380 522 X3 080 003 038 037 007 159 a Unless otherwise noted, bootstrap results are based on 1500 bootstrap samples (Source: The researcher’s collecting data and SPSS) Table 12 showed that Bootstrap is an alternative to asymptotic approximation for carrying out inference This showed that there were the same results of the regression for the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % Table 12 showed that Sig value was statistically significant and Significance value is 0.000 (< 0.05) The results presented with the observed t-value, the degrees of freedom, and the statistical significance of the one-sample t-test or Sig < 0.05 Therefore, it concluded that the population means are statistically significantly different If Sig > 0.05 There was the difference between the sample-estimated population mean Therefore, this result showed that there was no the difference between the sample-estimated population mean with significance level of % 187 We had analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Gender situation following: Table 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Gender situation Gender Sum of df Mean F Sig Squares Square 1.245 1.245 1.245 265 364.755 365 999 366.000 366 (Source: The researcher’s collecting data and SPSS) Between Groups Within Groups Total Table 13 showed that Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Gender situation showed that F = 1.245 was statistically significant and Significance value was 0.265 (> 0.05) Therefore, we reject H1 and accept H0 This showed that there was no different from Gender situation for the assessing about the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % We had analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Age following: Table 14 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Age Age Between Groups Within Groups Total Sum of df Mean F Sig Squares Square 012 012 012 912 365.988 365 1.003 366.000 366 (Source: The researcher’s collecting data and SPSS) Table 14 showed that Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Age showed that F = 0.012 was statistically significant and Significance value was 0.912 (> 0.05) Therefore, we reject H1 and accept H0 This showed that there was no different from Age for the assessing about the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % 188 We had analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Students information following: Table 15 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Students information Students information Between Groups Within Groups Total Sum of Squares 4.253 361.747 366.000 df 364 366 Mean Square 2.127 994 F Sig 2.140 119 (Source: The researcher’s collecting data and SPSS) Table 15 showed that Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about Students information showed that F = 2.140 was statistically significant and Significance value was 0.119 (> 0.05) Therefore, we reject H1 and accept H0 This showed that there was no different from Students information for the assessing about the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % We had analysis of Variance (ANOVA) the Study major following: Table 16 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) about the Study major The Study major Between Groups Within Groups Total Sum of df Mean F Sig Squares Square 575 575 575 449 365.425 365 1.001 366.000 366 (Source: The researcher’s collecting data and SPSS) Table showed that Analysis of Variance (ANOV about the Study major showed that F = 575 was statistically significant and Significance value was 449 (> 5) Therefore, we reject H and accept H This showed that there was no different from the Study major for the assessing about the quality of the education and training at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % 189 Sub-Problem No 4: What policies/measures maybe recommended based on the results of the study to improve the quality of the education and training Solutions for the improvement of the quality of the education and training Solutions for lecturers: Lecturer quality has become an issue of importance as the landscape of higher education has been facing continuous changes: increased international competition, increasing social and geographical diversity of the student body, increasing demands of value for money, introduction of information technologies, et Therefore, Ca Mau Community College should continue to train teachers in order to improve teaching quality Each lecturer should use many different methods for teaching students Lecturers continue to improve the knowledge that helps students understand the lesions easier Recruitment of teaching Lecturer: Lecturer recruitment must be done by a process of scientific examinations, closely, to ensure openness, fairness and democracy on the basis of defined criteria Currently, the process of recruitment of school teachers are very strict, public: Employment Information on the media (newspapers) about hiring standards majors (majors, graduate of good or higher, Priority postgraduate qualifications) Established Recruitment Council (managing board, chief of the department); Selected candidates must prepare faculty composed in all training programs of the university, faculty council before recruiting, if satisfactory, will continue in the interview to capture practical knowledge, political attitudes lifestyle, morals, family situation The next time to recruit faculty resources to meet the substantive requirements of the standards, there should be policies to attract, preferred graduates with honors, who holds a masters and PhDs officers, who undergo practical work at the grassroots level During the 190 selection process regardless of the learning process of the subject mature entrants as: Awareness, politics, style, lifestyle, aptitudes, academic departments and schools to choose exactly sure the requirement for quality Training and retraining of teaching Lecturer: Based on the structure and planning of individual faculty departments, each department, annually allocated for teacher training masters, doctorate, to raise the level of theoretical depth follow subjects Currently, the university has proposed to the Provincial Party Committee Organization enabling young teachers to study improve Each year, the celebration from lecturer PhD training Lecturer planning department leadership positions have advanced through the study of political theory Improve the practical level for trainers: Currently, the practical knowledge of teachers, especially young teachers is limited The school has developed an annual plan layout for faculty go practice, reviewing the practice of foreign and local For faculty had undergone practical process and perennial teaching practical travel arrangements as prescribed by the Institute; every teacher at least days in fact go on the basis of understanding reality apply to lectures, linking theory with practice For younger faculty, not through practical work at the grassroots level, the university is proposing to the Provincial Organizing Committee would like the mechanism of the work at the local, agencies and units in the system politics at least one year, according to the specialized teaching; then annually, each year one month to go practice accumulated practical knowledge The actual process of reviewing the practice facility of the faculty should follow a program, and outline plans are approved by school leaders with requirements, specific content, all harvest period have been accepted results as a basis for evaluation and grading of teachers annually 191 To encourage and promote scientific research active faculty: The function of the School of Politics is training and retraining and scientific research These two operations have organic relations with one another Practice shows that the scientific research activity of faculty is important and necessary This is the basis for the implementation of teaching methods; improve the quality of training and retraining For the faculty, teaching has always been respected but is only half of their professional activities The Lecturer involved in scientific research has consolidated expertise has conditionally extend understanding of knowledge from other disciplines Therefore, lecturer Political School not only teaches, but to spend time investing in scientific research contributed to sum up experiences, reviewing the practice of raising the quality of training and retraining to meet demand The higher of the society Currently, despite the provisions of the Academy, the school's regulations on the regime of scientific research faculty However, the colleges will have the solution to further promote the autonomy of scientific research of the faculty The Assignment of lectures and faculty appropriate time to invest time faculty members for research school; detection and retraining instructors capable scientific research engaged in several projects, these cases; proposed bonus and incentive regime for those lecturers are more scientific work was worthwhile quality The working environment for Lecturers: Creating a favorable environment for each faculty to develop their talents, dedication chance maturity: Fairness, democracy, solidarity, comrades, colleagues, who also finds himself being interested, conditional promotion forte capacity, creativity Construction faculty constantly growing both in quantity 192 and in quality, are prerequisites for improving the quality of training and retraining of cadres, public servants and employees of the university in the near future Solutions for equipment: Steering solutions to enhance the facilities in order to improve the quality of education and training following: In particular, the training quality is deciding the existence and sustainable development In addition to factors such as curriculum content, course books, reference books or management staff, teaching faculty, the infrastructure elements also have a very important role A field full of the above factors but poor infrastructure, outdated, not keep up the development of the society will not be able to get a best quality in training Therefore, strengthening infrastructure, equipped with teaching facilities and modern learning at Ca Mau Community College will help train up a workforce of quality, meet requirements of economic development - society in the current integration trends Therefore, Ca Mau Community College should continue to invest in modern facilities for research and teaching in the future Besides, Ca Mau Community College should continue to build many rooms for learning and researching of the students Some solutions to direct strengthening physical facilities in order to improve the quality of training as follows: First, advise and recommend to the leaders enhanced support facilities for Ca Mau Community College to meet the training requirements of high quality human resources for Ca Mau province and the neighboring provinces 193 Second, assess, examine reality, investment planning infrastructure equipment for each school year; steering unit in the base functions and tasks proposed additional equipment needed for the work Third, better direct the management, exploitation and use effectively the equipment for specialized tasks The school established asset management unit - the device, complete with profiles, statistical books, check assets quarterly, annually Besides, the Ca Mau Community College is responsible for managing delivery, use and preservation of assets for each unit; monthly check, reporting, repair, maintenance time Fourth, the exploitation of funds from foreign projects, the targeted programs of the Government, supported collaboration of businesses in the province of Ca Mau, balance from savings to complement Supplementing infrastructure, technical equipment to better serve the training of Ca Mau Community College Solutions for programs: Ca Mau Community College should continue to improve training programs that reflect current and future social demand, especially enterprise demand Besides, the program should continue to have many skills in order to help students have a good job in the future Ca Mau Community College should continue to improve training programs following: First, the Ca Mau Community College needs to promote stratification quality training programs based on accreditation (using AUN) Accordingly, the necessary investment in the floor section, focusing on industry-standard capable of immediately and complete the programs is limited; consider stopping admissions according to the schedule of the program does not meet the conditions for ensuring quality and does not meet the needs of society; 194 focusing on development of new programs, with high social needs, derived from the practical requirements Second, Ca Mau Community College has implementation of good proposals to reform the college entrance and graduate to recruit the most suitable candidates to attend training programs Ca Mau Community College requiring the entire political system of faculty to step in the admissions council should stick to timelines for the work to be conducted in accordance with procedures and timely, summarizing lessons learned after deployment to perfect the model and toolset assessment and enrollment services Finally, Ca Mau Community College innovation must go along with raising the quality of education Institute for Quality Assurance and Training in coordination with the Board to review, sort stratified training programs, the conditions for ensuring quality; consider the boundary problem for the education Ca Mau Community College will continue to care, investment in basic science, this is the advantage and the responsibility of Ca Mau Community College - the cradle of training the basic science of the province Ca Mau Community College will also conduct open new branches strength training, in line with the needs of society and the construction system commensurate curriculum (can import foreign materials), construction system of high quality learning materials for training and research In addition, Ca Mau Community College has directed promote research, forecasting manpower needs of society thereby creating a connection between the college and society, increase employment opportunities for students after graduation 195 CHAPTER V SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Summary Improving the quality of education and training is one of the most important tasks to ensure success progress fundamental and comprehensive change education in Vietnam under General Assembly Resolution XI the National Party To improve the quality of training requires cognitive perspective, strategy development suitable and reasonable solutions The regression analysis result showed that there were three factors, which included of factors following lecturer, equipment and programs affecting the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of % In addition The research result processed from SPSS software The parameters of the model estimated by Least - Squares Method tested for the model assumption with 5% significance level At the same time, the result was also scientific evidence and important for researchers, and policy makers who apply them for improving the education and training quality and developing human resource management in both Ca Mau province and other provinces Summary of Findings The main study has an assessment that discusses the respondents’ demographic profiles and purification of the measurement variables Besides, the reliability tests were conducted to test the consistency of the questionnaires Moreover, the hypothesis testing presented through correlation and testing factors following: 196 () The Lecturer affecting on the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of five percent () The equipment affecting on the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of five percent () The program affecting on the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College with significance level of five percent Conclusions The aim of this study was to examine the factors affecting the education and training quality To examine the study a literature review has been done on different aspects of training The findings of this study suggested many factors, which affects the education and training quality Quality in education includes: Learners who are healthy, well-nourished and ready to participate and learn Learners supported in learning by their families and communities In addition, Environment that is healthy, safe, protective and gender-sensitive The college provided adequate human resources and facilities; and its content that is reflected in relevant curricula and materials for the acquisition of basic skills, especially in the areas of literacy, numeracy and skills for life Learners have knowledge, skills and attitudes The aim of training is linked to national goals for education and positive participation in society This allows us to understand about education as a complex system embedded in a political, cultural and economic context It is important to keep in mind education’s systemic nature, however; 197 these dimensions are interdependent, influencing each other in ways that are sometimes unforeseeable Education and training are factors that directly affect the quality of human resources The quality of education will be trained human resources for the country Improving the quality of education and training is the goal of improving the quality of human resources to meet social needs After Data analysis, the main objectives of this study were finished following: The first objective conducted a survey to find factors that affecting the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College The second objective analyzed and tested some factors that affected the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College Finally, the researcher had been recommended solutions to improve the education and training quality at Ca Mau Community College Recommendations Recommendations for the authority of Ca Mau province To improve the quality of education and training in Vietnam, the Ca Mau province have been very interested Many workshops of the education sector have been scientists, educators participate constitutional successor but has not been yet feasible solutions In the framework of this presentation, we only mentioned some basic solutions to contribute to complement solutions have been implemented to improve the quality of education and training in the fundamental innovation process and Comprehensive education in our country, on the perception and their views The researcher is hoping to cash in on the system solutions 198 of Ca Mau province to implement efficient processes fundamental innovation Vietnam education in the spirit of the resolution of the National Party Congress XI Besides, Ca Mau province has strategic solutions following: First of all, Ca Mau province has human resource planning is a critical management function in that it provides management with information on resources flow that is used to calculate, among other things, recruitment needs and succession and development plans Secondly, Ca Mau province should be able to obtain and retain the number of people we need with the skills, expertise and competencies required Thirdly, Ca Mau province has secruitment and selection, in this environment, the importance of finding the right person for the job cannot be over emphasized and the decision to appoint an individual is one of the most crucial decisions an employer will ever take Finally, Ca Mau province has the planning of the training and development There is also a need to continuously train and develop the workforce to achieve competitive advantage Training will ensure that the students develop the right skills, attitudes and knowledge that will enable them to perform their jobs effectively and efficiently ... with the practical requirements of the teaching job, the researcher has chosen the theme: ASSESSING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING STRATEGY OF SELECTED COLLEGES RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED. .. over the period of this study QUACH VU iv ABSTRACT This dissertation, entitled ASSESSING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING STRATEGY OF SELECTED COLLEGES RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. .. fulfillment of the requirements for the degree 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