An Analysis of Career and Pathway Planning Students’ Beliefs Regarding Language Training Programs

Abstract

The study was to explore and predict the behavioral intention of career and pathway planning students to attend language training programs in Counting Education (ACE).  The research theoretical was based on the scholar of Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to define the most effective component to that influenced the behavioral intention of career and pathway planning students to attend language training programs in counting education.  This research study used two questionnaire instruments. 

Based on 260 valid samples, the main findings were as follows:

• TPB successfully predicted the nature of the behavioral intention of career and pathway planning students who intend to attend language training programs in continuing education.


• The results of this study showed that there was positive significance for the career and pathway planning students regarding their attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control.


• The strongest element to predict the behavioral intention in this research study was attitude. The Pearson correlation coefficient measured that the attitude did increased the significance level of p < .05, indicating a strong relationship between the attitude and the behavioral intention.


• The second strongest element to predict the behavioral intention in this study was perceived behavioral control. The Pearson correlation coefficient measured that the perceived behavioral control did reached the significance level of p < .05 and showed a strong relationship between the perceived behavioral control and the behavioral intention. 


• The third element in this research study to predict the behavioral intention was subjective norm. Although there was a correlation between the subjective norm and the behavioral intention, it did not increase statistical significance. The results showed that the Pearson correlation coefficient of the subjective norms did not reach the significance level p < .05.