Abstract:
The purposes of this research were (1) to examine personal factors, educational factors, social -economic factors and other factors of the Higher Certificate of Education students in six Teachers Colleges, Bangkok Metropolis; (2) to study the relationship between those factors and the entrance examination scores; and (3) to analyze factors that had influences on the entrance examination scores. The samples used in this study were 431 Higher Certificate of Education students enrolled in six Bangkok Metropolis Teachers Colleges during the 1982 academic year. The questionnaire, constructed by the researcher, was used to collect the data. The 67 independent variables studied comprise of 7 students personal factors, 18 educational factors, 25 socio-economic factors and 17 other factors. The dependent variable was the teachers colleges entrance examination scores. The researcher received 431 questionnaires from 452 questionnaires distributed (95.35%) The collected data were analyzed by means of percentages, means and standard deviations. Persons product moment correlation coefficient was computed to find the relationship between 67 dependent variables and the teachers entrance examination scores. Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis was employed to analyze the predictors of the entrance examination scores. The results of the study could be summarized as follow: 1.There were more female Higher Certificate of education students than male students in Teachers Colleges, Bangkok Metropolis. On the average, they were 20 years old, Most of them were language program students graduated from government secondary schools in the Northeast region. 2.Twenty-three variables were found to have significant relationships with the teachers colleges entrance examination scores at the .05 level. Of all these variables there were two variables from students personal factors, five variables from educational factors, nine variables from socio  economic factors and seven variables from other factors. Students home  location in Northeast region was found to have the highest correlation coefficient with the entrance examination scores. (r= -.172) 3. Six variables were found to have influences on the teachers colleges entrance examination scores. The variable which had highest predictive value was the educational program (language). Other variables were the students home location (Northeast region) their selection of institution (small number of applicants), their reason for choosing teaching field (failure in the university) entrance examination),their confidence in doing entrance examination and whether they had attended a tutorial course before taking the entrance examination. These six variables could explain 9 percent of variance of the teachers colleges entrance examination scores.