Factors Affecting Learning Outcomes of Science Subject among Prathom Suksa 5 Students of Schools under the Bangkhae District Office, Bangkok

Abstract

The Objectives of research article were to (1) find out the relation between aptitude, tolerance, scientific attitude, existing basic knowledge, gender and learning outcome of science subject among Prathom Suksa 5 students, and (2) formulate the equation to forecast learning outcome of science subject among Prathom Suksa 5 students. The population of this research was 1,233 Prathom Suksa 5 students from 12 schools under the Bangkhae District Office, Bangkok in the semester 2 for the academic year 2015. The instruments of this research were aptitude test, tolerance test, and scientific attitude test. The data analysis used the statistical package to find out Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression anlysis. The results were as follows: 1. The relation between factors and learning outcome of science subject by Pearson’s correlation coefficient showed that the factors were positively related to learning outcome of science subject at a statistical significance of .05. This was consistent with the research hypothesis that the existing basic knowledge (X5) had the highest correlation coefficient of .786, the aptitude (X2) had the correlation coefficient of .511, the scientific attitude (X4) had the correlation coefficient of .226, tolerance (X3) had the correlation coefficient of .224 and gender (X1) had the least correlation coefficient of .206. 2. The multiple regression analysis between independent variables, i.e, gender (X1), aptitude (X2), tolerance (X3), scientific attitude (X4), and existing basic knowledge (X5) with learning outcome of science subject among Prathom Suksa 5 students (Y) showed that the variables at a significance of .05 including aptitude (X2), tolerance (X3), scientific attitude (X4), and existing basic knowledge (X5) had the multiple correlation coefficient of .995 and determination coefficient of .989, which was consistent with the research hypothesis. It also found that the variable affecting learning outcome of science subject most was existing basic knowledge (X5) and the variable affecting learning outcome of science subject least was tolerance (X3) and could formulate the equation to forecast learning outcome of science subject as follows: Forecast equation in the form of raw scores Y ̂ = .535 - .973 X2 -.977X3 - .987 X4 + 3.664 X5 Forecast equation in the form of standard scores Z_Y ̂ = - .670 Z_(X_2 )- .595 Z_(X_3 )- .719 Z_(X_4 )+ 2.070 Z_(X_5 )