FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNING DISCIPLINES OF GENERAL EDUCATION ONLINE COURSES OF BACHELOR’S DEGREE STUDENTS IN BUNDIPATNASILPA INSTITUTE Research Aticle
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The objectives of this research are 1) to study the level of internal and external factors that affect the students’ discipline in online learning and study the level of students’ discipline in online learning, 2) to compare the study discipline in online learning of General Education courses with other external factors of undergraduate students, and 3) to study the causal relationship of students’ discipline in online learning with internal factors. This is survey research, and the research participants were 3,475 undergraduate students at Bunditpatanasilpa Institute in second semester of academic year 2021, who studied General Education courses. The sample size was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan table, the population size is 3,500, then 350 sample size was taken. The stratified random sampling was used for the method of selecting samples in this research. To determine the proportion of the sample population, the enrolled students in General Education courses were divided by distribution among the 17 faculties. A questionnaire check list with 5 scale level was used for the research instrument. Research results found the level of opinions on internal factors, in high level (=3.84, S =0.525) then considered subtleties, was found at high level of attitude towards learning discipline (= 4.05, S =0.529), study habits at a high level (= 3.92, S=0.640), achievement motivation at a high level (= 3.93, S= 0.604), belief in self-power at a high level (= 3.65, S=0.638), and attitudes towards online learning at a high level (= 3.52, S=0.824). The level of the students’ discipline in online learning showed a high level of discipline (= 3.70, S=0.709) behaviors as the students put priority as not sending the assignments later than the deadline. (= 4.10, S=0.933). Students who own personal computers showed the higher average of online learning discipline than the students without personal computers, at the statistically significant level of 0.05. The students with income range of "more than 10,000 baht" had an average of online learning discipline higher than the students with income range of "below 5,000 baht" and "6,000-10,000 baht" at the statistically significant level of 0.05. The students with "planned studies" had average of online learning discipline higher than the students with "planned study at some time" and "no-planning", at the statistically significant level of 0.05. The results of the causal relationship analysis revealed that study habits, achievement motivation, belief in self- power and attitudes towards online learning was positively affecting behavioral discipline in online learning
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