Factor Influencing the Critical Thinking of Teacher Students Studying at the Faculty of Education in Suratthani Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of this research aims to study. 1) To study the level of critical thinking teacher students and 2) To study the relationship between the key factors contributing factors to the critical thinking of student teachers. The target of this research in Suratthani Rajabhat University of Faculty of Education. Given the size of the sample using a table of Krejcie and Morgan (1970) had a sample of 348 people with a simple random sampling Proportion of students choosing to study the 7 program in 1-5 curriculum teaching regular tool used to collect data. The questionnaire scale. Independent variables include factor contributing factors. Variables such as critical thinking, confidence coefficient alpha of the scale was the order. The statistics used to analyze the data for the IOC (Index of Congruence: IOC) is an analytical test percentage. To the difficulty (p) and discrimination (r) of the test for the reliability of the test by means of a ditch rider - Richard Anderson, using the formula. The quality of the query using the t-test (Sombut Taikumrear 2546: 95) and for the reliability of the questionnaire. The scale using the method of coefficient alpha Cronbach (Boonchom Srisaart 2545: 99). The statistics used in hypothesis testing. By using SPSS programs to calculate the correlation coefficient of Pearson (Pearson Product Correlation Coefficient) (Sutthiwan Peerasaksophon. 2548-156) for the correlation coefficient (Kerlinger and Pedhazur. 1973: 75), and the significance of the correlation coefficient using F-test (Kerlinger and Pedhazur. 1973: 73)