FACTORS OF DROPOUT STUDENTS FROM FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SUAN SUNANDHA RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Napapond  Tongrattanachat; Piyada  Achayuttakarn; Adisai  Thovicha

Napapond Tongrattanachat Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Piyada Achayuttakarn Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Adisai Thovicha Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Keywords: Dropout, Dropout factor, Subject group, Relationship

Abstract

This research was to investigate the causes and relationships between the subjects and the factors of dropout students from Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, which sent the request to dropout or retired data followed by evaluation criteria. Researchers were collected data since 2013 to 2017. This research used population as 448 persons that grouping by 4 groups are Computer Science, Food Science, Education Science, and Applied Science. The dropout students had 3 factors which are social, transferring to another university, and university record the data analysis by Descriptive Statistics and Chi-Square. From the results, researchers found the most scores of dropout students was the most studied in Computer Science, Education Science, Applied Science, and Food Science, for respective. Which the most of factor as university record. In addition, dropout students have any groups and dropout factors each other as a significance level of 0.05.