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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• King, Seneca E

Titel

Predictors of Student Satisfaction and High School Completion Intention at Boston Adult Technical Academy

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ProblemThis study sought to investigate if mentorship as perceived by students, school climate as perceived by students, and self-efficacy are predictors of student satisfaction and high school intention completion at Boston Adult Technical Academy, an alternative high school in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.MethodThis research was quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, and predictive. The study population was made up of 140 students at Boston Technical Academy, an alternative school in the Boston Public School s system (BPS). Five instruments were administered, and 72 respondents of the population described participated.The technique of factorial analysis was applied to test the constructs of the instruments used and their reliability was evaluated with the McDonald’s coefficient and found to be acceptable. Linear regression was the statistical technique utilized for the analysis of the hypothesis.ResultsIn this study, the three null hypotheses were all rejected since the indicators show acceptable levels of model fit.The Ho1 was rejected. School climate and self-efficacy were the best predictors of school satisfaction. They explained 40.3% of the variance of the dependent variable school satisfaction.In the Ho2, the best predictor model showed that self-efficacy and mentorship explained 27.1% of the variance in intention to persist in school.The Ho3was also rejected. The predictor model showed that school satisfaction explained 8.6 % of the variance in intention to persist in school.The Path Analysis Model revealed that of the three indicator variables under investigation in the current study, school climate and student self-efficacy were the stronger predictors of school satisfaction and intention to persist in school than mentorship. Student selfefficacy had a variance of .43 on the intention to persist in school. The overall best predictor of school satisfaction and intention to persist in school was student self-efficacy with a variance of .37 on School satisfaction (β = .37) and .43 (β = .43). on intention to persist in school.Results of this study also indicate that there is a significant difference in the perception of school climate between working students and non-working students. The regression analysis has revealed that students who do not work are more satisfied with school (M = 4.16) than those who work (M= 3.90).