Education Quarterly Reviews
ISSN 2621-5799
Published: 10 December 2024
Study of Soft Skills that Students Need for Self-Development at Suvarnabhumi Institute of Technology
Suwit Salamteh, Nalinee Sutsavade, Sumitra Yapradit
Suvarnabhumi Intitute of Technology, Siam University
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10.31014/aior.1993.07.04.541
Pages: 251-259
Keywords: Soft Skills, Students, Self-Development
Abstract
This research objective was 1. Study the Soft Skills that students need for self-development at Suvarnabhumi Institute of Technology.; 2. Compare opinions of Soft Skills that students need for self-development at Suvarnabhumi Institute of Technology by faculty and year. The population studied was students from 4 faculties, totaling 393 people. The sample size determination by Krejci and Morgan, the sample size was 220 people. and random sampling. The instrument used was a questionnaire. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, Mean, standard deviation, one-way analysis of variance (One-way ANOVA) and content analysis. The research results found that: 1. Soft skills that students need for self-development were overall at a high level (x ̅ = 4.41, SD = 0.49), ranked as follows: teamwork skills (x ̅ = 4.47, SD = 0.56), life skills (x ̅ = 4.46, SD = 0.56) and communication skills (x ̅ = 4.43, SD = 0.53); 2. Comparison of students' opinions on Soft Skills that they need for overall self-development, classified by faculty, found that overall and in each aspect, students from the 4 faculties had different needs in 8 aspects at a statistical significance level of .05. And classified by year, found that overall and in each aspect, students from the 4-year levels had different needs in 6 aspects at a statistical significance level of .05.
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