Model Specification on ICT based Online Admission Practices: A Study on Higher Educational Institutions in the State of Chhattisgarh | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

ICT has wide range of applications in the modern organizations. In terms of University admission system usages of ICT plays a prominent role. The objective of the study is to build a model specification for online admission system in the state of Chhattisgarh. The present study examined the effect of predicting factor resource utilization and value for money, ease of use, student’s satisfaction, information access, safety and security and transparency and efficiency of ICT based online admission practices on student’s satisfaction (criterion variable). Demographic factors like age, income, gender, occupation and family type were the controlled variable in the study. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis (step wise method) was used for model specification with the help of SPSS v 24 (licensed) and AMOS v24 (licensed). The model specified as per fit signifies that age of the respondents and fathers occupation have a significant effect on the ICT based online admission process, where as easy medium of access of the online admission system, accessibility of information of admission and safety and security features involved in online admission system significantly effects the satisfaction of students admitted through online mode. Result indicates the explaining percentage of all predictors was 42.7%; this total of the variance included 3.3% for age, 1.2% for occupation, 32.1% for ease of use, 4% for information access and 2.1% for safety and security.  This model can be generalized for higher educational institutions for ICT based online admission practices in the state of Chhattisgarh.