Abstract:
To study how Chulalongkorn University undergraduate students use information on websites. The focus is on purpose, content, type of information on the web, access, source of information and the problem about the use of information on the web. The hypotheses of this research are the majority of Chulalongkorn University undergraduate students use information on websites for their reports, term papers and projects ; they use hypertext link for access of information on the web and the problem of the use of information on the web is students do not know the name of the URLs of the websites that contain information they need. This research is a survey research. The population of this research is Chulalongkorn University undergraduate students in the four-year-curriculum in 12 faculties, this excluding students in international programs. The total of population is 714. The questionnaires were sent to the research population and 684 questionnaires were returned and 666 were analyzed (93.28%). The analysis shows that 1) the majority of Chulalongkorn University undergraduate students use information on the web for their reports, term papers and projects. 2) The majority of students use social science content. 3) The majority of students use information on the web in text. 4) The majority of students use websites of academic institutes. 5) The majority of students access information on the web by search engines. 6) The majority of students retrieve information on the web in their house or apartment. 7) The majority of students use information on the web in the Thai language. 8) The majority of students use comprehensiveness of information as a for the selection of information on the web. 9) The majority of students encounter problems in the use of information at a moderate degree. The research results agree and disagree with the hypotheses.