Abstract
At present, internet is global information level that plays a very important role increasingly. It’s useful more or less depends on internet user behavior. Lower secondary school students are a group of people who close to and have most opportunity to use internet. Therefore, to study and understand their behaviors and causes of learning behavior via internet of lower secondary school students will be useful together with explain the cause of their behaviors. For that reason, this research has objective to study behavior and develop the causal relationship model of learning behavior via internet of lower secondary school students by selecting the causal relationship model of structural equation with latent variables. The independent variables included both of external and internal of student together. Data collection was conducted with 1,500 lower secondary school students in Bangkok Metropolis in academic year of 2011. The used questionnaire was 6 rating scales that composed of 128 items covering 20 observed variables. It had construct validity and construct reliability of 7 latent variables at good criteria. Statistics analysis was mean, standard deviation and SEM by LISREL program. The results illustrated as the followings. 1. Students had learning behavior via internet as whole at moderate level in every group both whole and sub-group classified according to sex and educational area into 5 sub-groups of male group, female group, Bangkok Metropolis area 1, area 2 and area 3. 2. The developed causal relationship had validity at good criteria for every model. The whole causal variables were able to predict the variation of result variable of behavior with 73.30% at whole group and between 50.10-85.10% in sub-groups. The causal latent variables of behavior had 6 variables, the order of influent values were family with 0.68, ability with 0.23, school with 0.20, affection with 0.14, friend with 0.07 and teacher with 0.03 respectively. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n4p39
Highlights
Act of National Education B.E. 2542 gave meaning of education and defined the meaning of educational management, educational guideline, and learner right that education means learning process for growth and development of person and society by transferring knowledge, training, cultural inheritance, creation for academic progress, creation body of knowledge from environment, learning society and factors to support person to continuously learn as lifelong education
Students had learning behavior via internet as whole at moderate level in every group both whole and sub-group classified according to sex and educational area into 5 sub-groups of male group, female group, Bangkok Metropolis area 1, area 2 and area 3
2) Analysis of validity of causal relationship model of learning behavior via internet of student and influencing values among variables in model with influencing analysis with latent variables with LISREL program 8.72 both whole and sub-group classified according to sex and educational area by good criteria of fit indices that selected from Viruchchai (1995) and Ungsuchote et al (2008) as followings. 2.1 F2 statistical significance (p > 0.05) 2.2 RMSEA < 0.05 2.3 RMR < 0.05 2.4 SRMR < 0.05 2.5 AGF > 0.90 2.6 AGFI > 0.90
Summary
Act of National Education B.E. 2542 gave meaning of education and defined the meaning of educational management, educational guideline, and learner right that education means learning process for growth and development of person and society by transferring knowledge, training, cultural inheritance, creation for academic progress, creation body of knowledge from environment, learning society and factors to support person to continuously learn as lifelong education. The aim of educational management must be implemented in order to develop Thai people to perfect in all aspects of physical, mind, intelligence, knowledge, and moral with ethics and culture of living They are able to live with others happily. As a result of learning via internet network is a way to assist and increase the chance for learner to learn by himself at all time and place with lifelong continuously to serve the aim of National education Act. even though, the electronic equipment is an essential factor for learning process via internet but the learning behavior of student via internet is an importance to lead to learning results as well; the learner should have appropriate learning behavior that assist to reach the desired learning results. The obtained research results would be information to express to causal relationship structure of causal variables toward learning behavior via internet of students and it will be able to use for planning for learning behavior development via internet of student to be appropriate to cause desirable learning results and to be tool for using in lifelong learning continuously
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