Abstract:
Investigating the international students’ decision to travel to Bangladesh for study
purposes was a study long overdue. In this study, we strove to look into the minds of
the international students to find out the underlying motivations that excite their
decision to choose Bangladesh as their destination for study. A demographic of
international students from various countries was targeted for the purpose. Both male
and female international students from different majors and education levels took part
in the survey. Various potential motivating factors such as social, political, and
economic factors were proposed. A total of 187 cases are found to be usable for the
analysis process.
For the mediating analysis, the bootstrapping technique was adopted for this study
which was suggested by (Hair, 2013). Bootstrapping is a robust technique for testing
the mediation effect which is a nonparametric resampling procedure that has
manifested itself (Zhao, 2010; Shrout and Bolger, 2002; Hayes, 2009).
The study shows that, the data was divided into two groups based on gender. One
group of the data being male and the other group being female. The results showed
that among the nine individual paths, four individual paths are moderated and five
paths were not moderated because there are no changes in results between male and
female.
A research model (as shown in figure 1) was then designed and sixteen different
hypotheses were then extracted from it and tested, out of which eleven paths found
were supported in the structural model and five hypotheses revealed rejected.
Description:
Supervised by
Dr. Mahbub Hassan,
Associate Professor,
Department of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE)
Islamic University of Technology (IUT)
Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh.
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of
Science in Technical Education with Specialization in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering in the Department of Technical and Vocational Education.
