Work or university? Economic competencies and educational aspirations of trainees with hybrid qualifications in Switzerland

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 8 Prediction of FVB students’ educational aspirations (logistic regression)

	B	SE	p	EXP (B)
Study ^a
Economic knowledge and skills	0.32	0.14	0.025	1.38
Intrinsic motivation (in economics)	−0.55	0.29	0.055	0.58
Interest (in economics)	−0.26	0.29	0.372	0.77
Value-oriented disposition (in economics)	0.34	0.25	0.169	1.40
Attitude towards economics	0.96	0.21	0.000	2.61
Mathematics (grade)	0.97	0.87	0.265	2.64
German (grade)	0.90	1.34	0.501	2.46
Economics (grade)	−0.30	1.16	0.799	0.74
Gender (0 = female; 1 = male)	−0.40	0.23	0.079	0.67
Migration background (0 = no; 1 = yes)	−0.46	0.50	0.354	0.63
Academic background (0 = no; 1 = yes)	−0.54	0.25	0.030	0.58
FVB Type (0 = integrated; 1 = consecutive)	−0.39	0.28	0.153	0.68
Profile (0 = commercial; 1 = other)	−0.91	0.33	0.006	0.40
Study and work ^a
Economic knowledge and skills	0.05	0.17	0.771	1.05
Intrinsic motivation (in economics)	−0.77	0.36	0.003	0.46
Interest (in economics)	0.28	0.36	0.430	1.32
Value-oriented disposition (in economics)	0.47	0.36	0.190	1.60
Attitude towards economics	0.69	0.27	0.011	1.98
Mathematics (grade)	0.78	0.91	0.393	2.18
German (grade)	−0.26	1.26	0.835	0.77
Economics (grade)	0.04	1.11	0.972	1.04
Gender (0 = female; 1 = male)	−0.27	0.29	0.355	0.76
Migration background (0 = no; 1 = yes)	−0.28	0.49	0.572	0.76
Academic background (0 = no; 1 = yes)	−0.74	0.31	0.016	0.48
FVB Type (0 = integrated; 1 = consecutive)	−0.12	0.23	0.596	0.88
Profile (0 = commercial; 1 = other)	−0.69	0.31	0.026	0.50
R² (Nagelkerke)	0.11

^aReference group is the group of students who wish to work; B Regression coefficient; SE Standard Error; p Significance level; parameters were estimated by using MLR (maximum likelihood parameter estimation); school-classes are used as cluster variable to adjust SE to the stratification of the data using Mplus (Muthén and Muthén 2007)