The Satisfaction of Students in Studying The Fundamental Subjects of The Faculty of Science at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to study the satisfaction of students in studying thefundamental subjects of The Faculty of Science at King Mongkut's University of TechnologyThonburi, to get some information that can be used to analyse and develop the contents and/orthe methodology in teaching the fundamental subjects, also to get other information about learningfactor.

The results from the evaluation are as follows : Students are satisfied with the preparation oflecturers at a high level, and are satisfied with the learning process and the lecturers personality ata medium level. The satisfaction with the laboratory subjects is at a high level. Students commentthat some topics in the fundamental subjects are repeated as in the school at a medium level.

Summarily, the satisfaction depends on the process of teaching and learning, the lecturerspersonality (X₃) and the grade points average of the students (V₃) at 0.05 significant level. Furthermorethe result agrees with the Multinomial Logistic Regression model g_i = β₀ + β₁V₃ + β₂X₃ where i =1, 2, 3, 4, 5 represent the level of satisfaction lowest, low, medium, high, highest respectively. Thismodel can predict correctly 71.5%.

Keywords : Satisfaction / Fundamental Subjects