ATTITUDE DETERMINANTS OF THE COLLEGE STUDENTS TOWARDS STUDYING OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES (TVEP)

This study attempts to enlighten the attitude of University and College students for studying the vocational education and training programmes through exploring the factors determining the development of the student's attitude. There are number of factors are responsible for determining the attitude towards vocational education Programmes. Few most important factors were concentrated for the present study. As proposed by the fishbein (1963) there is a close relationship exists between attitude and individual beliefs. Most of the findings reveal that, the outputs are very much similar to the inputs quality. If we train a person with lots of fearfulness, then he behaves fearfully. So believing is most important for the developing the attitude of the people. The descriptive nature of research is conducted with the help of self structured questions consisting of the statements about the attitude of the students towards studying Vocational and Technical Education Programmes. A total of 100 College students were selected as sample and were distributed questionnaire and were explained carefully. The three points scaling such as agree, undecided and disagree were used to find out the attitude of the respondents. The Investigation was carried in five colleges in Tiruchirappalli District covering equally 100 Colleges going students each 20 students in five colleges by using simple random sampling techniques. The result reveals that, most of the students are not aware of the existence of vocational education and Technical Training Institutes at their location and even more of them are not interested in Vocation Education programmes. The frequency distribution was analyzed. The factors such as the socio-economic status, qualification and their societal factors influencing more for determining the attitude of the respondents in the study area.