The relatioship between the study habits of mattayom-suksa 4-6 students at Ramkhamhaeng University Demonstration School who could pass the entrance examination to the public universities, The Ministry of University Affairs, academic year 1993 to 1996 and the result of the joint higher education entrance examination
Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to investigate the relationship of the study habits to the result of the joint higher education entrance examination of Mattayom-Suksa 4-6 Students at Ramkhamhaeng University Demonstration School who could pass the entrance examination to the public universities in 1993 to 1996 and to investigate the study habits in each item factor affecting the result of the joint higher education entrance examination.The sample was 116 Mattayom-suksa 4-6 students at Ramkhamhaeng University Demonstration School who could pass the entrance examination to the public universities in 1993 to 1996. The data were collected by the survey of study Habits (SSH) and the result of the joint higher education entrance examination was represented by the lowest mark of the faculties or study fields that each student could pass. Statistical analysis procedures employed included the computation of the means, standard deviation, correlation coefficient and regression analysis. FINDINGS: 1. Students' study habits and two study-habit-characteristics (Delay Avoidace and work Method) did not correlate significantly at the .05 level with the result of the joint higher education entrance examination.2. Among the fifty items of study habits, it was found that five items correlated significantly at the .05 level with the joint higher education entrance examination : three of them positively correlated (1. At the time having a test, I always forgot what I had recited before.; 2. I could study well some day according to my emotion. ; and 3. At the time having a test, I felt bashful and confusing and I thought I could do it but I could not.) and the other two did negatively.(1. It was difficult for me to use the correct grammar in report writing.; and 2. I was careless and had no plan to do my homework and report.) 3. Results of regression analysis, using the seventeen factors by factor analysis, indicated that four factors affected the result of the joint higher educated that four factors affected the result of the joint higher education entrance examination. Together, the four factor combined to explain the variance of that four factors affected the result of the joint higher education entrance examination. Together, the four factors combined to explain the variance of the result of the joint higher education entrance examination for 15.96 percent. The four factors were as the following:- 1) Having no good preparation for the test and good technics for reading and remembering. : 2) Being a slow worker and having no enthusiasm for study. ; 3) The difficulty to use the eorrect grammar in report writing.: and 4) No attentionto study and the carelessness in working. Only the first factor positively correlated.