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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.097.023.201904.541-555
The Effect of Teaching Quality on Student Career Choice: The Mediating Role of Student Goal Orientation
Tuatul Mahfud
Graduate School, Yogyakarta State University / Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (Jl. Colombo No.1 Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia), Associate Professor, Balikpapan State Polytechnic (KM.8 Soekarno Hatta St., Balikpapan City 76127, Indonesia), M. Ed. (Education), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6081-6306, Scopus ID: 57200122329, Researcher ID: Q-2305-2017, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Setyabudi Indartono
Professor of Human Resource Management, Yogyakarta State University / Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (No. 1 Colombo St., Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia), Ph. D. (Business Administration), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2289-9216, Scopus ID: 37123968000, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ida Nugroho Saputro
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Education, Sebelas Maret University / Universitas Sebelas Maret (No. 36 Ir Sutami St., Central Java 57126, Indonesia), M. Eng. (Civil Engineering), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9555-2910, Scopus ID: 57194655565, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Indah Utari
Teacher, Vocational High School (SMK N 3 Bekasi) (L 5, No. 1 Mutiara Gading Timur St., Bekasi 17518, Indonesia), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-1022, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction. Career choice is an essential stage for vocational students to identify suitability, readiness, and development of the capacity to work. However, until now, studies that discuss how vocational learning can shape students’ career choices are still limited and not yet widely discussed. This study aims to develop structural models to shape the maturity of student career choices, which involves teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation in collaboratively and interactively. Specifically, this study aims to investigate the effects of teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on career choice. Also, it will help to examine the role of mediation for the student’s goal orientation under the influence of teaching quality.
Materials and Methods. Data were collected randomly through an online questionnaire survey from 289 vocational students in the tourism field in Indonesia which included the culinary art and hospitality department. SEM analysis is used to test the path model and bootstrapping confidence interval estimate to test the mediation role.
Results. This study revealed that teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation are collaborative and interactive predictors of career choice of vocational students. Also, the learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation significantly mediate the effect of teaching quality on student career choices, and this mediation is partial.
Discussion and Conclusion.This study also reinforces the theory that the success of achieving the learning outcome is significantly affected by external (e.g., teaching quality) and internal dimension (e.g., student goal orientation). Finally, it is recommended that vocational education practitioners should improve the quality of learning and teaching process by encouraging positiv e student goal orientation.
Keywords: learning quality, goal orientation, learning goal orientation, performance goal orientation, career choice
Funding: This work was funded by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia (grant number 2903.29/D3/PG/2017).
Acknowledgments: This study is part of the dissertation project, so we would like to thank the Yogyakarta State University Graduate Program for agreeing to select this dissertation topic. Also, we thank the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia for supporting this research funding through scholarship funds (Grant no. 2903.29/D 3/PG/2017).
For citation: Mahfud T., Indartono S., Saputro I.N., Utari I. The Effect of Teaching Quality on Student Career Choice: The Mediating Role of Student Goal Orientation. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2019; 23(4):541-555. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.097.023.201904.541-555
Contribution of the authors:
Tuatul Mahfud – study framework development; instrument development; data analysis; manuscript writing; and manuscript submiting.
Setyabudi Indartono – instrument development; data analysis; manuscript review; and English proofreading.
Ida Nugroho Saputro – exploring concept; data input; manuscript writing; and visualization/presentation of data in the text.
Indah Utari – data collection and evidence, typing, correction, and edition.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 21.08.2019; revised 07.10.2019; published online 31.1 2.2019.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
