APPLYING HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY TO EVALUATE TVET INSTITUTION PERFORMANCE THROUGH MODEL FIT ASSESSMENT
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https://doi.org/10.55197/qjssh.v7si4.1630Keywords:
SDG, Goodness-of-fit, TVET, model fitAbstract
Malaysia highlighted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to track the performance of its nation. Goals 4 focusing on promoting equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning access including the contribution of TVET to this country. This study aims to develop a model assessment of the SEM SmartPLS application to evaluate the impact of technological infrastructure support on TVET instructors' human capital determinants. As one of the solution the Global Goodness-of-Fit (GoF) was applied to determine the level of model fit. A linear regression model's "goodness of fit" aims to address the potentially surprisingly complex question of how well a model fits a particular collection of data, or how well it will forecast a collection of observations in the future. Specifically, the application of GoF aimed to provide a single global statistic summarizing the fit of the PLS-SEM model. Instate of that, the Standardized Root Mean Square (SRMR) also was verified to test the fit measure. To demonstrate the process research was carried out among lecturers from 9 polytechnic campuses in the East Coast, Malaysia. A survey consisting of 63 items with 7 Likert scale was distributed to 1478 of TVET lecturers and 345 samples were successfully collected using the Stratified Sampling procedure. Next data were then analyzed using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to test the hypotheses. The results confirmed the hypotheses in determining the direct and significant effect between the constructs. Malaysia Ministry believed that as they are essential to achieving the nation's educational goal, a sustained growth of this group is a critical area of concern. As a result, their professional profile must be consolidated alongside the educational environment. Importantly, this study provides a significant finding that aids the TVET institution in identifying the role that technology infrastructure support and HC factors play in combining their human resources.
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