2. Background of Diploma course:
The Polytechnic diploma Institutions in Tamilnadu can be
classified as, Government Institutions, Government Aided Institutions,
Autonomous Institutions, Self-Financing Institutions. All these institutions
conducting diploma program on various discipline like Civil Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics
Communication Engineering, and Automobile Engineering etc. For all the courses
Directorate of Technical Education develops the curriculum and syllabus. The
autonomous Institutions must also follow same curriculum. The only difference
between autonomous institutions and the other institutions is that autonomous
institute can offer few more papers, which they feel suitable for the students.
The diploma course can be classified as, regular diploma course and sandwich
diploma course. In regular diploma the duration of the course is 3 years. In
sandwich diploma the student has to undergo in-plant training in industries
during their IV and VII semesters. During the training period, the student has
to be paid a stipend of Rs.1200/- under apprenticeship amendment act 1973. The
industry has to pay the stipend, out of which Board of Apprenticeship and
Training will reimburse 50% of the amount paid to the trainees.
3. Methodology:
The sample for this study was collected from 12 industries
located in Chennai. The questionnaire was circulated to small scale industries,
medium scale industries and large scale industries. The industries were
classified as Large Scale industry, Medium Scale industry, and Small scale
industry. Large-scale industry is one which has an investment of more than 10
crores. Medium scale industries are those, which has an investment of 1 crore
to 10 crore . Small -scale industries are those, which have an investment of
less than 1 crore. These classifications are made by the Small Industries
Development Bank of India's (SIDBI) and approved by the Small Scale Industry
Ministry
The questionnaire was prepared and circulated to the human
resources department people. The respondents were asked to rank on five point
scale their opinion about the technicians the following points.
1. Expectation of the industries from the Mechanical diploma
technicians
2. Depth of present mechanical diploma curriculum
3. Promotion opportunities available for Mechanical diploma
technicians
Reliability statistics of the questionnaire circulated is
given in the table 1.
Table 1: Reliability
statistics
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Cronbach's Alpha
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Cronbach's Alpha Based on Standardized Items
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N of Items
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0.734
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0.731
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13
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4. Analysis of data:
The statistical analyses of data were based on the five point
scale administrated to the respondents. Student t test and Analysis of
covariance (ANOVA) was used to determine any statistical differences of the
performance, expectation and the curriculum depth of groups recruited by campus
interview and by other means. Following the ANOVA procedures, significant main
effects were further analyzed by post hoc paired comparisons to examine
differences between groups. All null hypotheses were tested at the .05 level of
significance.
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