A Study of Factors Influencing on Grade Point Average of Thaksin University’s Students

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the factors that influence on grade point average (GPA) of Thaksin University’s students. Influential expected factors were sex, year of study, faculty, admission procedures, marital status of parents, educational level of parents, occupation of parents, average monthly income of family, and homeland. Samples used to study were 455 students of Thaksin University who studied in the second year until the fourth year of academic year 2013, which samples were derived by the method of Circular Stratified Systematic Sampling. Data were collected by using questionnaire and statistics used in data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, minimum value, maximum value, t-test, Levene’s test based on mean, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Welch test. If the significant difference in GPA was found, we test the multiple comparison of mean by the method of Duncan’s multiple range test. Research findings indicated that, faculty, admission procedures, educational level of parents, occupation of parents, average monthly income of family, and homeland influenced on GPA of Thaksin University’s students at the significance level .05.