Factors Affecting the Quality of Graduate Students in Educational Management of Nakhon Sawan Rajabhat University in Thailand

Abstract

This research aims were to: (1) study the levels of factors affecting the quality of graduate students, (2) to study the correlation between factors affecting the quality of graduate students, (3) to create equation to predict factors affecting the quality of graduate students. The instruments conducted in this research were a questionnaire with multiple choices and a questionnaire with rating scale to analyze the data of percentage, average, Standard Deviation, Multiple Correlation Coefficient, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results have discovered that: (1) the levels of factors correlated with quality of the graduate study is in high level, the characteristics of graduate students are considered in high level, (2) the multiple correlation coefficient affects the quality of graduate students in many aspects such as student factor, instructor factor, classroom environment and atmosphere and extra activities creating more experience for the students are related to the quality of the graduate students. According to the analysis between correlation coefficient and predictive variables, four aspects have been considered with positive value of .01 statistically significant values, (3) the creation of equation to predict the quality of the graduate students. According to Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis affecting the quality of graduate students, it has been discovered that there are two variables out of five variables used together to predict the quality of graduate students with .01 statistically significant value. The two variables are student fact and instructor factor with 31.20 percent of variance on the quality of graduate students.