Educational Choice Regarding Technical Education: Research with Case Study

Abstract

In first part, the models, theories, mechanisms and presumptions, as well as the ideas of educational choice' discourse have been scrutinized. In the second part, the survey on educational choice at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania has been presented. The methodology used in this research is a survey of respondents and survey interpretation. The goal of questionnaire is to identify the main trends in the choice of studies at a technical university. An additional goal is to identify which educational choice theory reflects in the best way students' real decisions when choosing a specific study program. The survey shows that the following study programmes are enough feminine: "Environmental Protection Engineering", "Bioengineering" and "Biomechanics". Nearly 80 per cent of students in those programs are females. "Electronics Engineering", "Information Systems Engineering" and "Transport Engineering" tends to be fully masculine (90-100 per cent of students are males). A technical university deals with such masculine subjects as technology, engineering, and mathematics usually have been mostly chosen by the mails. Choosing a study programme, the decision depends on the social class of a young man (woman). We can speak also about such factors of educational choice as the social, the cultural, and the creative capitals.

The Design and Realization of the Evaluation Model for Enhancing the "Second Classroom" Education by Using the Multimedia Interface

“…[20,21]. With the daily increase in student participation in multimedia learning courses, creating and delivering high-quality interactive online and virtual learning content is equally important [22,23].For online learning is effective, developing, designing, and implementing higher multimedia content in online learning classes [24]. Using a standard approach to introduce and develop multimedia in an education system allows students to access and acquire information in a comfortable, interactive environment with easy accessibility to related information [25,26].…”

Programas académicos técnicos y tecnológicos

“…El tercer aspecto de la población de estudiantes se refiere a características de escogencia de los estudiantes de diferentes programas: como la escogencia de campos de tecnologías de información por hombres; la escogencia de campos de biomecánica y trabajo físico del cuerpo por mujeres; así como la interrelación entre características personales y factores contextuales en estas escogencias (Kačerauskas, T. y Šaparauskas, J., 2017;Khazaee, L. y Nodehi, 2015;Libralato, 2015).…”

“…En el mismo examen, los estudiantes de SENA se ubican bajo la media nacional pero con puntajes similares entre su oferta de programas Presenciales y a Distancia tradicional, mientras que los Técnico-profesionales y tecnólogos en las IES tienden a presentar estos puntajes por encima de la media. Es posible que la mediación en estos programas esté mejorando, y con ella sus ofertas a Distancia; mientras que en general tienden a aumentar los puntajes en Saber TyT, y a ser más atractivos los programas de este nivel en instituciones diferentes al SENA (Ferreira y Raitz, 2017;Gómez, 2013;Havelka, Kropáč, Serafín, Chráska, y Částková, 2015;Kačerauskas y Šaparauskas, 2017;Libralato, 2015;Litzinger y Dunn Jr., 2015;Tønder y Aspøy, 2017).…”