ERIC Number: EJ1440511
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jan
Pages: 21
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EISSN: EISSN-2158-2440
Modeling the Determinants of Students' Satisfaction and Continuance-Intention toward a Mathematics and Science Distance Education Program
Brandford Bervell; Paul Nyagorme; Justice K. Armah; Emmanuel Arthur-Nyarko; Valentina Arkorful; Benjamin Eduafo Arthur
SAGE Open, v14 n1 2024
A distance education Diploma and Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Science programs are faced with low enrollment and graduation rate as well as high attrition of students. The aforementioned challenges are attributed to students' satisfaction and continuance intention. However, students' satisfaction and continuance intention toward distance education programs are as a result of certain antecedents. This modeled the determinants of satisfaction and program continuance intention by the distance education students on the math and science programs. Based on this, a quantitative approach based on a census survey was adopted and data collected from 113 students through a questionnaire and analyzed using a structural equation modeling approach based on partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results of the study showed that two key antecedents: student-instructor interaction, and study center physical facilities determine program satisfaction of mathematics and science distance students. However, administrative support of the program determined instructional modules; facilitation quality was predicted by both instructional modules and laboratory facilities. Finally, students program continuance intention was predicted by satisfaction of the program. Based on the findings, recommendations were made for policy and practice toward improving students' satisfaction and promote positive intention in pursuant of mathematics and science education program by distance mode.
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Intention, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Distance Education, Academic Persistence, College Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Study Centers, Administrator Role, Laboratories, Facilities, Instructional Materials, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Public Colleges
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ghana
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