At each location FGDs were held with each of the four health worker student groups of interest, including medical, nursing, pharmacy and laboratory students.
Factors such as student loss of interest in the major, course demands, instructors, and inadequate educational background and preparation of the student have been cited as impacting student attrition (Seymour and Hewitt, 1997).
In a three-stage qualitative evaluation programme, student feedback showed that overall the trails enhanced students' knowledge of, interest in, and closeness to the objects.
Finally, it was found that students' perceptions of interest and joy positively and significantly predicted students' achievement.
The anonymous surveys were based on a Likert scale to indicate the degree to which students agreed with various statements or to indicate the students' degree of interest.
Our current study here suggests that number of years in RCS training not only has a positive association with students' intention to work in a rural location, but also is positively associated with students' level of interest in rural practice.
The SEM analysis also revealed the significant role of students' perceptions of interest and joy on their mastery goal orientation.
Some Year 11 students' lack of interest in school curriculum presented as an engagement problem.
Finally, Table 6 shows the students' degree of interest in the course.
The students' level of interest and perceived competencies in Structural Engineering courses were measured by adapting the Perception of Engineering Classes Survey (PECS) Questionnaire [2].
