This study is to examine the gap analysis between consumers’ perception (P) and expectation (E) toward the street foods in Surabaya and Bangkok cities. The convenience sampling is used to collect the data totaled as 849 respondents from both cities. The P-E Cartesius gap analysis indicates the quadrants of each questionnaire item. The Paired t-test is used to examine each city’s consumers’ P-E differences. The independent sample t-test examined the P-E differences towards the street foods quality among the cities. The result shows P-E gap towards street foods is higher among the consumers in Surabaya than in Bangkok. The perception towards street foods among consumers in Surabaya is different than in Bangkok, but the expectation of both consumers group is the same. It is suggested street food vendors in Surabaya to increase their product and service qualities as well as prices to meet the expectations.
This study aims to examine the satisfaction of employed college students about the entrepreneurial project-based education using an e-learning platform. One hundred seventy-nine students of the Creative Design course which requires entrepreneurial projects. Multiple regression analysis examined the influence of six independent variables, namely: «perceived navigation», «perceived convenience», «perceived compatibility», «perceived usefulness», «perceived ease to use» and «perceived enjoyment» towards the satisfaction in the use of e-learning platform for the course. Results showed that only «perceived navigation», «perceived compatibility», «perceived usefulness», and «perceived enjoyment» significantly influence the satisfaction on the use of e-learning platform for entrepreneurial projects. «Perceived navigation» is the most significant variable that influences these students’ satisfaction in the use of e-learning for the required entrepreneurial project. There is a need to ensure the consistency to resources (i.e. e-learning platform), environment, and management to make the entrepreneurial project-based activities adapt the smart-classroom characteristics.
This study examines the differences for transportation expenditure between weekdays and weekend consumption. The purpose of this study to find out whether the use transportation on weekdays or what commonly called a workday is different from weekend or what commonly called holiday. The data collection is used by delivering questionnaires to 100 respondents randomly. The independent t-test is used in this study to analyze the data. The results of the analysis obtained shows that there is mean difference between transportation expenditure on Weekdays and Weekend. The ttest value shows positive (+) sign to justify that weekday group (first group) has higher mean value than weekend group (second group). This study implies the policy of public transportation in increasing its quality and the habitual or culture of the community.