Corresponding Author: Roohollah Samiee, Department of Management, Aliabad katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad katoul, Iran. E-mail: Roohalla.samiee@gmail.com Studying the Factors Relevant with Students' Willingness toward Continuing Education i

ABSTRACTBackground: Importance of technical skills has been emphasized in developing and developed countries economic and social growth. Some of these countries took some measures to improve and invest on their technical education as the first step to make economic growth and development. In doing so, the current research aims to study the factors relevant with students' willingness toward continuing education in Sama technical institute of Ali Abad Katoul. Objective: The population consists of all students majoring in the second and third year from 2011 to 2012 in boy and girl technical high schools of Ali Abad Katoul, Gonbad and Azadshahr. Results: The research method is applied in terms of goal and survey and descriptive in terms of data collection method. To collect data, library and field ways and questionnaire with Chronbach Alpha coefficient of 0. 78 have been used. To analyze data, descriptive and inferential statistics such as Chi-square test, variance analysis test and Spearman correlation test have been used. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the variables of social status, job access, Conclusion: and education performance, implementing expert and skillful masters and education quality and students' willingness toward continuing education in Sama technical institute of Ali Abad Katoul.

Keywords: social status, job access, education performance, job wishes, education quality