Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study variables related to and affected cognitive and noncognitive, learning achievement of ecclesiastical school students at secondary education level in Bangkok metropolis. The samples were 116 and 297 ecclesiastical students in Mathayom three and Mathayom six respectively. The data were collected by using six sets of questionnaires constructed by office of the National Education commission and were analyzed by means of the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, simple coefficient correlation, Enter and stepwise multiple regressions. The findings were as follws: For Mathayom three students: For Mathayom three students Intelligence, educational background, achievement notivation, learninghabits and attitude towards study, fathers education and financial support were positively related to the cognitive learning achievement while time taken for going to schools was negatively related to the cognitive learning achievement. Learning habits and attitude towards study and educational were positively related to the noncognitive learning achievement, while time taken for going to schools and a number of days absent from schools were negatively related to it. Among the five variables chosen for analyzing multiple regressions, the intelligence, educational background, achievement motivation and time taken for going to schools are the important factors of cognitive learning achievement. Also, the four variables, learning habits and attitude towards study, achievement motivation, time taken for going to schools and education background, are the important factors of noncognitive learning achievement. For mathayom six students. Intelligence, educational background, achievement notivation, learning habits and attitude towards study were positively related to cognitive learning achievement while age was negatively related to noncognitive learning achievements. However, learning habits and attitude towards study, achievement motivation and financial support were positively related to noncognitive learning achievement. Among the fifteen variables which chosen for study, intelligence, educational background and achievement motivation are the three important factors of cognitive learning achievement. Also, theage, intelligence, achievement motivation and learning habits and attitude towards study are the four important factors of noncognitive learning achievement.