The results of academic achievement studies say that the most important determinant of student’s academic achievement is social economic status of student’s family. By the way, the entering students of vocational high schools have a bad school records in their middle school and are children of low-income families. So, it will be very difficult for those students to improve their academic achievement.
The purpose of this study is to find the determinants of vocational high school student’s academic achievement in Korea. In this study, KEEP 4th wave(2007), developed by KRIVET, was used in analysis.
In the results of analysis, the influence of family factor wasn’t found. And teacher factor influenced positively through the mediation influences of attitude, motivation, and problematic behavior of students. But school factor influenced negatively through the influence of mediators. The influence of private education factor wasn’t found. The implication of this result of analysis was discussed.