Browsing by Author "Halsas, Ada"

The aim of this study was to asses the motives of the students of general and adult education. Motives are the reasons for our actions and certain motives affect the the choice for studies. Previous studies show that the main reason to choose educational studies is the persons own interest on the subject. Students` age and family background has also shown to have a connection with school choice motives. This study focused on the motives of the students of Helsinki University. The study was conducted as a quantitative study and the material was collected as a electrical questionnaire on spring 2017. Miina Hietala (2015) has made an indicator to measure the school choice motives of teacher students. On the base of this indicator a new indicator was made to measure the motives of general and education students. This indicator has 13 claims that measure five different motivational factors. The material was analyzed with the SPSS- statistical program. The material was analyzed in order to find statistical key numbers of the different motivational factors and possible connections between the students age, social background and previous studies to motivational factors affecting school choice. Correlations and Mann-Whitneys test were used to analyze the material. The motives for school choice of the students of general and adult education in Helsinki University were personal interest and the value given to the education. Social factors and the education as a back-up plan seemed to motivate the least to choose this education. These results are in line with the earlier studies. The students seemed to have almost similar school choice motives, although all the motivational factors had been the primary motive to choose to study general and adult education. More study of school choice is needed in order to find out the factors affecting school choice.