Effectiveness of Atvet Towards Employment Rates, Wages Rates and Mastery of Practical Skills of Alumni Students from Kolej Vokasional Teluk Intan
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https://doi.org/10.53797/ajvah.v5i1.7.2024Keywords:
Effectiveness of ATVET, employment, wages, alumni, practicalAbstract
Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education Training (ATVET) is a program focusing on agriculture skills development. ATVET program is to create skilled workers for the agricultural industry. However, problems occur when employers provide job possibilities to graduates who don't meet all requirements, particularly those related to practical abilities. In fact, graduate employees have deficiencies in every position they are given, which contributes to salary-related problems and the effectiveness of the program is questioned. Therefore, this research aims to study the effectiveness of ATVET for alumni students of Kolej Vokasional Teluk Intan (KVTI) regarding employment rates, wages rates and mastery of practical skills. This research employed a quantitative research approach. A structured questionnaire was used as the main instrument and data collection was collected through surveys using online surveys to reach the target respondent. The targeted respondents of this study are three different batches of ATVET alumni of KVTI, a total of 58 of whom answered the given questionnaire. Several analyses are employed in this study such as frequency, descriptive, mean score and standard deviation. The results of the research data obtained independent variables, namely the employment rate obtained the mean and standard deviation (M= 3.9433, SD=.56319). Wage Rates obtained the mean and standard deviation (M= 3.7701, SD=.74720) and mastery of practical skills obtained the mean and standard deviation (M= 4.0394, SD=.54170). In a conclusion, this study will provide useful information to uplift the ATVET program and be able to be a well-known program to serve industry-ready graduates in future.
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