FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNING ENQUIRY BEHAVIOR OF BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

Abstract

The research aimed to study learning enquiry behavior, factors affecting learning inquiry behavior, and factors related to learning inquiry behavior of 926 first-year engineering students from faculty of Engineering at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Chiangmai, first semester academic year 2018. The engineering students were from Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Civil and Environmental engineering, and Industrial engineering. Multistage Sampling has been used to determine the sampling from 286 students.

The instrument had used in this research as questionnaire about learning inquiry behavior and factors affecting learning enquiry behavior. This questionnaire had used rating scale and statistical data analysis including mean score, standard deviation (SD), Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient, and Mutiple Regression analysis.

The results had shown that:

1. The learning inquiry behavior of first-year engineering students from faculty of Engineering at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Chiangmai had certain level about learning inquiry behavior at high level. All first-year Engineering students were at high level, except Mechanical engineering students were at medium level.

2. Factors affecting learning inquiry behavior, consist of the support of curriculum and instruction, family support, and learning resources were at high level overall.

3. Factors supporting of curriculum and instruction, family support, and learning resources had positive relation with learning inquiry behavior significantly difference at .05. Moreover, factors that mentioned above lead to independent variable which was learning inquiry behavior had concurred by those three factors. Consequently, the correlation coefficient had increased to .889 (R), and had affected to learning inquiry behavior at 79.10 percentage increasingly.