Principal Factors Analysis on IS Survey

Principal Factor Principal Factor Analysis of IS-SurveyAnalysis of IS-Survey

(and some EFA too…)(and some EFA too…)

By Paul PajoBy Paul Pajo

Details of IS SurveyDetails of IS Survey

Research initiated by Ms. Menchu Cueto, Research initiated by Ms. Menchu Cueto, Chairperson of the IS Department of De Chairperson of the IS Department of De La Salle – College of Saint BenildeLa Salle – College of Saint Benilde

Given to first batch of IS graduates for Given to first batch of IS graduates for SY 2008-2009SY 2008-2009

N=30; male=27; female=3N=30; male=27; female=3 Ages 19-21Ages 19-21

Survey is composed ofSurvey is composed of

Factors why they entered IS programFactors why they entered IS program Awareness of DLS-CSB policiesAwareness of DLS-CSB policies Satisfaction over aspects of IS programSatisfaction over aspects of IS program Program Implentors’ perceived competencyProgram Implentors’ perceived competency Faculty’s perceived competencyFaculty’s perceived competency Perceived Student’s Developed SkillsPerceived Student’s Developed Skills Perceived Relevance of CoursesPerceived Relevance of Courses Perceived Attained ObjectivesPerceived Attained Objectives

PFA (first pass) PFA (first pass)

PFA on perceived Student’s developed skills PFA on perceived Student’s developed skills andand

Perceived attained objectivePerceived attained objective Why? The scales are the same:Why? The scales are the same:

(5)(5) Developed/Attained to a very great extent Developed/Attained to a very great extent (VGE)(VGE) (4)(4) Developed/Attained to a great extent Developed/Attained to a great extent (GE)(GE) (3)(3) Developed/Attained to a moderate extent Developed/Attained to a moderate extent (ME)(ME) (2)(2) Developed/Attained to a slight extent Developed/Attained to a slight extent (SE)(SE) (1)(1) Developed/Attained to a very slight extent Developed/Attained to a very slight extent (VSE)(VSE) (0)(0) Not Applicable or no sufficient information to Not Applicable or no sufficient information to

respond respond (NA)(NA)

21 factors on perceived 21 factors on perceived Student’s developed Student’s developed skillsskills

IT UnderstandingIT Understanding Systems AnalysisSystems Analysis Systems DesignSystems Design Systems DevelopmentSystems Development Project ManagementProject Management Financial AnalysisFinancial Analysis Org Behavior UnderstandingOrg Behavior Understanding Achievement-OrientationAchievement-Orientation AnalyticalAnalytical CommunicationCommunication DelegatingDelegating

FeedbackFeedback FuturingFuturing Group ProcessGroup Process InterpersonalInterpersonal LeadershipLeadership NegotiationNegotiation OrganizationOrganization PresentationPresentation Problem-solvingProblem-solving Business WritingBusiness Writing

6 factors on perceived 6 factors on perceived attained Objectivesattained Objectives

Attained practical and theoretical knowledge of Attained practical and theoretical knowledge of the utilization of IT in an enterprisethe utilization of IT in an enterprise

Positive contribution to the development of the Positive contribution to the development of the Philippine ICT industry.Philippine ICT industry.

Well rounded CSR Benildean IT professionalWell rounded CSR Benildean IT professional Partnerships via academic linkagesPartnerships via academic linkages Commitment to social improvementCommitment to social improvement Appreciation of diversity Appreciation of diversity

Correlation MatrixCorrelation Matrix

Scree Plot (3 factors!)Scree Plot (3 factors!)

Unrotated Factor LoadingUnrotated Factor Loading

Eigenvalues Explained Eigenvalues Explained VarianceVariance

Varimax Rotation RawVarimax Rotation Raw

Factor 1Factor 1 is dominated by is dominated by items that measure items that measure organizational organizational communicationcommunication

Factor 2Factor 2 is dominated by is dominated by items that measure ICT items that measure ICT external relations & external relations & diversitydiversity

Factor 3Factor 3 is dominated by is dominated by items that impact Project items that impact Project ManagementManagement

New Survey Form reduces the 27 New Survey Form reduces the 27 items to 13items to 13

Factor 1Factor 1 items will be items will be 8 items8 items on the Perceived Developed on the Perceived Developed Student’s skills related to Student’s skills related to Organizational BehaviorOrganizational Behavior

Factor 2Factor 2 items on the Attained items on the Attained Objectives will be Objectives will be 3 items3 items

Factor 3Factor 3 items will be items will be 2 items2 items on the Perceived developed on the Perceived developed Student’s skills focusing on Student’s skills focusing on Project Management + Project Management + Financial AnalysisFinancial Analysis

PFA (2PFA (2ndnd Pass) Pass)

PFA on Program Implentors’ perceived PFA on Program Implentors’ perceived competency andcompetency and

Faculty’s perceived competencyFaculty’s perceived competency Why? The scales are the same:Why? The scales are the same:

(5)(5) Excellent Excellent (E)(E) (4)(4) Very Satisfactory Very Satisfactory (VS)(VS) (3)(3) Satisfactory Satisfactory (S)(S) (2)(2) Needs Improvement Needs Improvement (NI)(NI) (1)(1) Poor Poor (P)(P) (0)(0) Not applicable or Not enough information to Not applicable or Not enough information to

respond respond (NA)(NA)

14 factors on Project 14 factors on Project Implementor’s perceived Implementor’s perceived competencycompetency

DeanDean ChairpersonChairperson Practicum CoordinatorPracticum Coordinator BS-IS support staffBS-IS support staff Student Org AdviserStudent Org Adviser Guidance CounselorGuidance Counselor Final Academic Adviser Final Academic Adviser

for IMPROJ1/IMPROJ2for IMPROJ1/IMPROJ2

19 factors on Faculty’s 19 factors on Faculty’s Perceived CompetencyPerceived Competency

Mastery of subject matterMastery of subject matter Use of effective teaching Use of effective teaching

strategies/methodsstrategies/methods Effective CommunicationEffective Communication Able to share decision-making with Able to share decision-making with

studentsstudents Smoothness of relationship with Smoothness of relationship with

studentsstudents Knowledge of recent trendsKnowledge of recent trends Ability to maintain disciplineAbility to maintain discipline Emphasis on Analysis and synthesis Emphasis on Analysis and synthesis

vs. memorizationvs. memorization Ability to present lessons in an Ability to present lessons in an

organized mannerorganized manner Able to give feedback through prompt Able to give feedback through prompt

return of exam results and projectsreturn of exam results and projects Efficiently plans classroom activitiesEfficiently plans classroom activities

TraitsTraits FlexibilityFlexibility OpennessOpenness CreativityCreativity Respectful to studentsRespectful to students Sensitive to Student’s needsSensitive to Student’s needs Trusting of student’s skillsTrusting of student’s skills Listens actively to studentsListens actively to students Makes time Available for Makes time Available for

consultationsconsultations

Unrotated Unrotated Factor Factor LoadingLoading

Varimax Varimax RawRaw Factor LoadingFactor Loading

Factor 1Factor 1 is dominated by teacher is dominated by teacher skills that impact student skills that impact student interaction and disciplineinteraction and disciplineFactor 2Factor 2 is dominated entirely by is dominated entirely by Final Academic Paper (FAP1) Final Academic Paper (FAP1) Interaction + ChairpersonInteraction + ChairpersonFactor 3Factor 3 is dominated by entirely is dominated by entirely by FAP2 Interactionby FAP2 InteractionFactor 4Factor 4 is dominated by is dominated by faculty’s consultative activitiesfaculty’s consultative activities

New surveyNew surveyreduces 33 reduces 33 to 19 itemsto 19 items

Factor 1Factor 1 items will be items will be 8 items8 items on on Faculty’s perceived student Faculty’s perceived student interaction and disciplineinteraction and disciplineFactor 2Factor 2 items will be items will be 4 items4 items on on Final Academic Paper (FAP1) Final Academic Paper (FAP1) Interaction including perceived Interaction including perceived Chairperson competencyChairperson competencyFactor 3Factor 3 items will be items will be 3 items3 items focused only FAP2 Interactionfocused only FAP2 InteractionFactor 4Factor 4 items will be items will be 4 items4 items on on Faculty’s perceived consultative Faculty’s perceived consultative activitiesactivities

PFA (3PFA (3rdrd Pass) Pass)

PFA on Perceived Relevance of CoursesPFA on Perceived Relevance of Courses Why? The scales are the same:Why? The scales are the same:

(4)(4) Extremely Relevant Extremely Relevant (ER)(ER) (3)(3) Relevant Relevant (R)(R) (2)(2) Irrelevant Irrelevant (I)(I) (1)(1) Extremely Irrelevant Extremely Irrelevant (EI)(EI) (0)(0) Not Applicable or Not Enough Not Applicable or Not Enough

Information to respond Information to respond (NA)(NA)

30 Subjects30 Subjects BASACCTBASACCT ADVACCTADVACCT BUSLAWSBUSLAWS PRINMANPRINMAN PRINMARPRINMAR PERMANAPERMANA PRODUMAPRODUMA BUFINMABUFINMA SYSANALSYSANAL SYSDESISYSDESI

IMPROG1IMPROG1 IMPROG2IMPROG2 IMPROG3IMPROG3 DBS-CONDBS-CON PRJ-MGTPRJ-MGT INFORESINFORES PROGAP1PROGAP1 PROGAP2PROGAP2 IM-EBIZIM-EBIZ WEBDEVTWEBDEVT

VERTSOLVERTSOL IT-DOCUIT-DOCU PROGLANPROGLAN WEBTECHWEBTECH ENTDBASENTDBAS SOFTESTSOFTEST APPLDEVAPPLDEV IMPROJ1IMPROJ1 IMPROJ2IMPROJ2 IM_PRACIM_PRAC


Factor 1Factor 1 is dominated by the is dominated by the Systems Analysis & Design Systems Analysis & Design subjectssubjectsFactor 2Factor 2 is dominated by the is dominated by the accounting and business finance accounting and business finance subjects subjects Factor 3Factor 3 is dominated by the is dominated by the Marketing and Management Marketing and Management subjectssubjectsFactor 4Factor 4 is dominated by the is dominated by the programming, FAP and programming, FAP and Practicum subjectsPracticum subjectsFactor 5Factor 5 is dominated by is dominated by introduction to new introduction to new frameworks/languages subjectsframeworks/languages subjects

New Survey New Survey reduces from reduces from 30 to 16 Items30 to 16 Items

Factor 1Factor 1 items will be items will be 2 items2 items on on the relevance of the Systems the relevance of the Systems Analysis & Design subjectsAnalysis & Design subjectsFactor 2Factor 2 items will be items will be 2 items2 items on on the relevance of the accounting the relevance of the accounting and business finance subjects and business finance subjects Factor 3Factor 3 items will be items will be 3 items3 items on on the relevance of the Marketing the relevance of the Marketing and Management subjectsand Management subjectsFactor 4Factor 4 items will be items will be 6 items6 items on on the relevance of the the relevance of the programming, FAP and programming, FAP and Practicum subjectsPracticum subjectsFactor 5Factor 5 items will be items will be 2 items2 items on on the relevance of introduction to the relevance of introduction to frameworks/languages subjectsframeworks/languages subjects

PFA (4th Pass) PFA (4th Pass)

Satisfaction over aspects of IS programSatisfaction over aspects of IS program Why? The scales are the same:Why? The scales are the same:

(4)(4) Extremely Satisfied Extremely Satisfied (ES)(ES) (3)(3) Satisfied Satisfied (S)(S) (2)(2) Unsatisfied Unsatisfied (U)(U) (1)(1) Extremely Unsatisfied Extremely Unsatisfied (EU)(EU) (0)(0) Not Applicable or Not Enough Not Applicable or Not Enough

Information to respond Information to respond (NA)(NA)

25 Aspects25 Aspects

Academic AdvisingAcademic Advising Assistance to Assistance to

studentsstudents InnovativenessInnovativeness Help in LecturesHelp in Lectures Group work or Group work or

case analysis or case analysis or programming programming activitiesactivities

Help in MultimediaHelp in Multimedia Benildean core Benildean core

valuesvalues Group Group

presentationspresentations Online ResourcesOnline Resources

Required AnalysisRequired Analysis TextbooksTextbooks Reference library Reference library

materialsmaterials Close linkagesClose linkages OJTOJT Industry-basedIndustry-based Initial interviewInitial interview Exit interviewExit interview Follow-up interviewFollow-up interview Individual counselingIndividual counseling

Seminars& WorkshopsSeminars& Workshops Quality ofQuality of

Lecture Lecture classroomsclassrooms

Computer labsComputer labs LRCLRC CafeteriaCafeteria Consultation Consultation

venuesvenues


Factor 1Factor 1 is only on helpful is only on helpful referencesreferencesFactor 2Factor 2 is dominated by is dominated by seminar/career related aspectsseminar/career related aspectsFactor 3Factor 3 is dominated by lecture is dominated by lecture and multimedia aspectsand multimedia aspectsFactor 4Factor 4 is only on the LRC is only on the LRCFactor 5Factor 5 is only on the cafeteria is only on the cafeteriaFactor 5Factor 5 is only Benildean Core is only Benildean Core valuesvalues

Note:Note: adjusted eigenvalue factor adjusted eigenvalue factor loading threshold from .70 to .69 loading threshold from .70 to .69 to load LRC to to load LRC to Factor 4Factor 4

New survey New survey reduces 25 reduces 25 items to 13items to 13

Factor 1Factor 1 item is item is 1 item1 item on helpful on helpful referencesreferencesFactor 2Factor 2 items are items are 5 items5 items on on seminar/career-related aspectsseminar/career-related aspectsFactor 3Factor 3 items are items are 4 items4 items on on lecture and multimedia aspectslecture and multimedia aspectsFactor 4Factor 4 item is item is 1 item1 item on LRC on LRCFactor 5Factor 5 item is item is 1 item1 item on on cafeteriacafeteriaFactor 5Factor 5 item is item is 1 item1 item on on Benildean Core valuesBenildean Core values

Note:Note: chose this rotation, NOT only chose this rotation, NOT only because it makes sense but because it makes sense but because it extracts because it extracts BenildeanBenildeanCore ValuesCore Values (ANIMO BENILDE!)(ANIMO BENILDE!)

Item reduction because Item reduction because of PFAof PFA

Perceived Student’s Developed SkillsPerceived Student’s Developed Skills Perceived Attained ObjectivesPerceived Attained Objectives

From 27 to 13From 27 to 13 Program Implementors’ perceived competencyProgram Implementors’ perceived competency Faculty’s perceived competencyFaculty’s perceived competency

From 33 to 19From 33 to 19

Perceived Relevance of CoursesPerceived Relevance of Courses From 30 to 16From 30 to 16

Satisfaction over aspects of IS programSatisfaction over aspects of IS program From 25 to 13From 25 to 13

TOTAL REDUCTION OF FACTORS: 51 items from the TOTAL REDUCTION OF FACTORS: 51 items from the original 115 or a 44.34% - thanks to Principal Factors original 115 or a 44.34% - thanks to Principal Factors AnalysisAnalysis

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