The Effects of Academic Self-Efficacy on Vocational Students Behavioral Engagement at School and at Firm Internships: A Model of Engagement-Value of Achievement Motivation

Abstract

There has been a marked increase in internship participation in recent decades. Many students who take cooperative programs consider internships to be the most appropriate entry point into their chosen careers. However, few studies have investigated factors related to internships from an engagement-value perspective that can influence the intention to continue doing internships with firms. This study concluded that academic self-efficacy was positively related to school and firm engagement; school engagement did not significantly relate to, but firm engagement did positively relate to the perceived usefulness of internships; and perceived usefulness of internships was positively related to intention to continue doing internships.

Engineering Students’ Industrial Internship Experience Perception and Satisfaction: Work Experience Scale Validation

“…The mean values of all items and all subscales are above the mean and at least one standard deviation, which means that, globally, students perceived the internship as something positive and as a source of learning, meeting what the institutions that provide this type of learning think [4,5]. The item of the generic competencies subscale that assessed the statement 'The internship has developed my ability to solve problems', as well as the general competencies subscale, presented the highest mean.…”

“…In the past few decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) have devoted increasing attention to developing mechanisms for facilitating the integration of graduates into the labor market [1], partly driven by the acknowledgment of the high youth unemployment rates (in Portugal, that rate was 25.4% as of June 2021 [2]), even among educated people, as job competition has become much tighter among tertiary graduates with basically the same credentials [3]. One such mechanism is the internship, having had a notable increase in recent years [4]. Indeed, internships are usually seen to provide students with working skills and facilitate the graduates' transition from HEIs to the market [5] with a considerable amount of work experience [3].…”

“…An internship is a pedagogical strategy of WIL [1] and means an opportunity for undergraduate students to embody work-related experience into their formal education in an HEI by participating in supervised and planned work in authentic professional environments [11]. Many students that participate in cooperative programs consider internships to be the best strategy to move into the careers they choose [4].…”

The Empirical Study of Factors Affecting Students’ Competence of Fashion Design Education in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 Era

“…A structured questionnaire adapted from the development results of some previous studies is used to collect the primary data (Henri et al, 2017;Hong et al, 2021; 262…”

“…It is known that students should use technology on an industrial scale in the fashion-making process, such as designing, creating basic patterns and pattern-breaking, rolling out, and cutting materials to improve their cloth-making competence (Kozar& Connell, 2015;Ryan, 2020). Unfortunately, most of them are considered incompetent or technologically illiterate (Pratama et al, 2019;Sasnett& Ross, 2016) which affect their production targets (Hong et al, 2021;Messmann& Mulder, 2015). This is due to the fact that most lecturers do not facilitate them enough information about industries' actual working conditions (Darling-Hammond et al, 2020;Sancho-Gil et al, 2020) and technology use (Beatrice et al, 2018).…”