Prediction of Satisfaction and Performance of Students in Tehran Technical and Vocational Training and Work-Study Program

The goal of this research is to study the relationship of interest, prior performance with self-efficacy, satisfaction and present performance of technical and vocational training and work-study program students. Due to this, a sample in size of 765 as chosen from students of Tehran technical and vocational training and work-study program by means of multistep cluster sampling. Data tools were obtained by a questionnaire including 3 subsets of interest, satisfaction and self-efficacy and also study of educational performance by existing documents. The prepared questionnaire was used by group method when its validity and reliability were qualified. In order to analyze the data, simple and multiple regression was utilized. Results revealed that grade point average of high school first year can be predictable by grade point average of middle school third year (F=886.170, df=1.742 p < 0.01). The grade point averages of high school first year and middle school third year lead to prediction of grade point average of students in second year (F=51.53, df= 1.239 p < 0.01). The grade point average of second year predicts the self-efficacy, prior interest and satisfaction of students (F=92.63, df=3.219 p < 0.001). The grade point average of middle school third year and high school first and second year predicts the self-efficacy of students (F=3.24, df=3.213 p < 0.05).