FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNING STRATEGIES OF STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION, LOEI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to investigate the relationship among the factors at the student level and the factors at the class level with the students’ learning strategy, and 2) to examine the influence of the factors at the student level and the factors at the class level on the students’ learning strategy. The sample consisted of 590 students and 59 classrooms in       the Faculty of Education, Loei Rajabhat University; obtained by using a multi-stage random sampling technique. The instruments for collecting the data were the questionnaires for evaluating the students’ learning strategy, attitude towards the classroom atmosphere, belief in the internal locus of control, attitude towards learning, and self-regulated learning. Multilevel analysis technique through HLM (Hierarchical Linear Model was applied for the data analysis. The results revealed as follows:

1. 1. The factors at the student level: belief in internal locus of control, attitude towards learning, and self-regulated learning were associated with the students’ learning strategy at the statistical significant level of .01.
2. 2. There were three factors at the student level including belief in internal locus of control, attitude towards learning, and self-regulated learning were together described the variance of the students’ learning strategy at the percentage of 76.60.
3. 3. The factors at the class level i.e. classroom atmosphere had relationship with the students’ learning strategy at a statistical significant level of .01.
4. 4. The factors at the class level i.e. classroom atmosphere described the variance of the students’ learning strategy at the percentage of 75.29