Abstract:

In this study, the purpose was to investigate the viewpoints of the students studying at the Landscape and Ornamental Plants Department on their profession according to their reasons for preferences. The study was conducted in Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Fethiye Ali Sıtkı Mefharet Koçman Vocational High School in 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 Academic Years by applying questionnaires to the students studying at Landscape and Ornamental Plants Department. The number of the students registered in this program between 2012-2015 was 113, and the questionnaire was applied to 90 students. The Questionnaire consisted of 11 questions to determine the demographical properties and the viewpoints of the students. The answers of 90 students who participated in the questionnaire was assessed with frequency, percentage, cross tables and arithmetic average values. At the end of the study, when the weighted averages of the responses were assessed, it was observed that the viewpoints of the students on their professions were positive. It was determined that the students with the most positive viewpoints were the ones who considered their professions as their ideal profession. The other students were those who preferred their department upon the desire of their families, those who thought that it was easy to find a job after graduating from this department, those who were graduated from Vocational High Schools and wanted to continue an upper level in their profession, those who did not receive adequate points to prefer an undergraduate program, those who wanted to receive undergraduate education by taking the Transition Exam after graduating from their departments, and those who thought that they could be placed in this department according to their scores received from Higher Education Entry Exam. 

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