A study to investigate the relationship between the unemployed’s learning motivation and vocational training effectiveness

[[abstract]]A study to investigate the relationship between the unemployed’s learning motivation and vocational training effectiveness ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the unemployed’s learning motivation and their vocational training effectiveness. This study distributed 303 questionnaires to the trainees who are registered for unemployed vocational training and obtained 282 valid samples. The effective rate of the questionnaires is 93.07%. The data was analyzed with SPSS software using descriptive analysis, validity analysis, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation. The results are as follows: 1. The learning motivation of the unemployed shows significant difference across categories of gender, age, education background, the number of training, the period of training, and training programs. 2. The training effectiveness of the unemployed shows significant difference across categories of education background, training programs, and the period of training. 3. The perceived learning interest showed a positive correlation with training effectiveness. Following are the suggestions: 1. The organizer should carefully examined the qualification of registered trainee, in case they quit the training too early to waste the education resources. 2. The host can arrange more micro-venture programs for the unemployed so that they can employe the learnt skills to start a new business with higher success rates