A study of learning behaviors of the undergraduate students from Faculty of Education

Abstract

This research study was aimed to 1) investigate the learning behaviors of the third-year undergraduate students and 2) analyze the learning behaviors of the third-year undergraduate students. The target group included 23 third-year students majoring in Biology. The study tool was the survey of students’ learning behaviors. The data were analyzed by frequency distributions, percentage, and independent t-test. 

The result of the study revealed that the overall learning behaviors were in the Good level. The first three good behaviors performed by the students were knowledge utilization over taking examination, the self-evaluation of determination to graduate, and adaptation of knowledge. Apart form taking examination, what the students least performed was to research the curriculum details to clearly understand. The survey of learning behaviors manifested that 16.30 percentage of the students did not perform the overall desired behaviors. Those who performed the overall desired behaviors 1-8 times were found 56.52 percentage. Finally, 27.1 percentage showed that the students performed the overall desired behaviors for more than 9 times. According to the comparative analysis of the students’ learning behaviors whose learning outcomes were different, the students with high learning achievements performed differently from those with lower achievements in the parts of knowledge utilization over taking examination, interests in studying further from the class, additional knowledge gained from self-study assignments, and willingness and participation in the class.