The Impact of Students’ Initial Decisions in Choosing Tertiary Institutions Towards Student Satisfaction on Learning Quality

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200827.037How to use a DOI?

Keywords

physical evidences, student motivation, learning quality

Abstract

The increasingly fierce competition in higher education is marked by the emergence of a variety of new tertiary institutions which certainly influences the decision of prospective students to choose a quality tertiary institution. Tertiary institutions must be able to provide a quality and meaningful learning process. This research aims to reveal the role of student’s initial decisions to choose a tertiary institution that is proxied through physical evidence and self-motivation as well as to reveal the impact of those decisions on student satisfaction with the quality of learning. The research was conducted through a survey. The samples in this research were active students at private tertiary institutions in Bima city which were 379 respondents in which the Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling technique was used. Regression analysis with the help of SPSS Version 20 for windows was used to analyze the data and test the hypothesis. The results indicated that aspects of physical evidence and self-motivation had: a role in the initial decision to choose a tertiary institution and the decision had an impact on student satisfaction with the learning quality of the chosen tertiary institution. The implications of this research are directed to maximize the dimensions that influence students’ initial decisions in choosing a tertiary institution in order to optimize student satisfaction on the quality of learning starting from the input, process and output of learning-oriented to the service aspects that are directly felt by students as recipients of educational services.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kartin Aprianti
AU  - Amirulmukminin Amirulmukminin
AU  - Muhammad Yusuf
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/28
TI  - The Impact of Students’ Initial Decisions in Choosing Tertiary Institutions Towards Student Satisfaction on Learning Quality
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 142
EP  - 144
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.037
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.037
ID  - Aprianti2020
ER  -