School Factory Education in Optometry Towards Employability

Abstract

In recent years, social problems such as "difficult employment" and "shortage of skilled workers" have troubled the development of vocational education. The Chinese Ministry of Education focuses on the areas where technical skills are in short supply, this study will find out the possible employability of the school factory education in optometry. The methodology of the study employed a descriptive research design to determine the assessment of school-factory education in Higher Vocational Colleges for Optometry Majors in J Vocational and Technical College in China. This study used survey questionnaire as the primary source of data to be interpreted with the use of statistical analysis. According to student respondents, school-factory education enabled them to acquire skills, however, few disagreements on the aspect of knowledge and attitudes should be taken to an account.Also, as perceived by the school leader respondents, learning environment has a great impact in the employability of the students in a school-factory education. The study also found that student respondents have relatively the same perceptions of school-factory education in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes regardless of their age and sex but vary when it comes to their grade level. Grade 3 student respondents have much agreed on school-factory education in terms of attitudes, skills and knowledge compare to grade 2 student respondents. School leader respondents have relatively the same perception of school-factory education in terms of learning environment and trainings regardless of their age, sex and educational attainment. However, school leaders who have bachelor‘s degree much agree on school-factory education in terms of trainings compare to other school leaders with different educational attainment.