Guidelines for Promoting Desirable Characteristics of Vocational Students in The Digital age: Cross–Impact Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of research was 1) to analyze desirable characteristics of vocational students in the digital age; and 2) to present guidelines for promoting desirable characteristics of vocational students in the digital age. For research sources, three sources were used: documents and articles in Thailand and other countries, job description and interview the needs of entrepreneurs derived from the application of crowdsourcing and text mining. The data were analyzed with co-occurrence by the R Program and evaluated the feasibility of a guidelines with cross–impact analysis by 5 experts.
The research findings were as follows:
1. The top ten common desirable characteristics of vocational students in the digital age that the labor market wanted were: patient, responsibility, interpersonal skills, diligence, basic programming skills, honesty, service minded, studiousness, tools and equipment skills and teamwork skills.
2. Guidelines for promoting desirable characteristics of vocational students in the digital age were as follows: 1) The policy department had no guidelines for promoting that affected other guidelines. 2).The graduate production department had two guidelines that affected other guidelines: (2.1) Teachers managed teaching and learning to better fit the context of working.in the digital age and (2.2) Directors of educational institutions developed extra-curricular activities on future skills. 3)The employer department had three guidelines that affected other guidelines: (3.1) Entrepreneurs organized student workshops before work and held student’s meetings at least once a month for students in order to assess themselves. (3.2) Entrepreneurs enhanced the use of Information technology with modern and adequate equipment; and (3.3) Entrepreneurs attached great importance to developing coaching skills to student’s advisors.