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Appropriate Internet Use Behavior (AIUB) of Thai Preservice Teachers: A Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) Analysis
No full textThis study reports on Thai preservice teachers' appropriate Internet use behavior (AIUB) in 30 tertiary institutions across Thailand. The sample used both multistage random sampling and stratified random sampling to select the study’s 1,800 participants which were grouped into two academic disciplines related to information and communications technology (ICT) and non-ICT disciplines. A questionnaire was used to identify both the internal and external factors, in which item reliability was judged to be 0.83 - 0.92. The HLM 7 software program was used to analyze the two-tiered linear model on pre-service teacher AIUB. Three types of two-tier models were evaluated, one with a dependent variable, a second model with student-level independent variables, and a third model using independent variables at both the student level and the school level. Data were analyzed employing average statistics ( ) and standard deviation using IBM SPSS Version 21 software. The HLM 7 software was used for the analysis of the three HLMs classified by ICT and non-ICT disciplines. Results revealed that each preservice teacher's abilities, characteristics, home/family situation, and their friends/classmates were predictive parameters that influenced the models, confirming the importance of these four variables in positively influencing preservice teacher AIUB
An Analysis of Thai Student Teacher Appropriate Internet Use Behaviour
Full text linkThe goals of this research were to analyse and develop a Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) of appropriate Internet use behaviour of Thai student teachers. The sample group consisted of 1,800 student teachers studying for their bachelor’s degree at 30 Thai government educational institutions. The research tool used was a questionnaire with content validity and reliability at 0.83 – 0.92. Mean (¯(x )), standard deviation (S.D.), and HLM were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that appropriate Internet use behaviour in Thai student teachers was at a high level. Additionally, the HLM for appropriate Internet use behaviour for Thai student teachers consisted of two levels of predictor variables. The first level was the student teacher level, in which six of the hypothesized nine predictor variables had statistical significance. Five had a positive effect, which included ability, affect, family situation, gender, and GPA, while one variable had a negative effect, which was income. The second level was the institutional level, which contained two predictor variables with statistical significance, friends and educational institution situation, with both having positive effects. Friends had a direct effect on behaviour at the educational institution level, while educational institution situation had an effect through ability
Students' behaviors and Goals of Using Internet in Rajamangala University of Technology
Full text linkรายงานการวิจัย--มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลพระนคร,2549The purpose of this research were to study and compare students' behaviors and goals of Internet using in Rajamangala University of Technology (RMUT). Sample were 2,500 students who studied in the academic year 2005. They were selected by satisfied quota random sampling. Behaviors and goals of Internet using questionnaire with the reliability of .96 and .98. The data were analysed with means, standard deviation, t-test and One-way ANOVA. The result were as follows:
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Students acquired the knowledge of Internet from friends, classroom learning and by themselves which were almost equal. They largely had their own computer. They used Internet from RMUT and Internet cafe which were almost equal. Most of them used Internet with friends and alone which were almost equal. Most of students received 1,000-3,000 bath per month. They paid Internet expense by their own which less than 500 bath per month. Most of students had Internet experience between 2-4 years and more than 4 years which were almost equal. They used Internet 1-3 times per week and 1-3 hours per time in weekdays and between 16.01pm.-20.00 pm.
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Students used Internet at the high level.
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Students had objectives ofInternet using in RMUT at the moderate level.
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Sex, age, education level, academic programs, using private computer and Internet experience shown statistical significantly different at level of .05 in students' behaviors ofInternet using in RMUT.
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Sex, academic programs, using private computer and Internet experience shown statistical significantly difference at .05 level in students' goals ofInternet using in RMUT.Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakho
Development of Learning Management Model of Collaborative Learning and Positive Coaching on Cloud Computing System
Full text linkThis study aims to systematically review the learning management model on cloud computing system using collaborative learning and positive coaching. The author uses the literature review to synthesize research as the main process to study related documents, books, research studies, and articles both domestically and internationally. They are selected by purposive sampling for 69 topics. The documents are analyzed by systematic review. This study is a qualitative study and uses content analysis by using keywords to discover three issues as follows: Cloud computing, Collaborative learning, and Positive coaching. From the results of this study, Cloud computing comprises six components: Cloud learning content, Cloud collaboration, Cloud communication, Cloud creation, Cloud presentation, and Cloud evaluation. The collaborative learning process has five steps as follows: Engagement phase, Exploration phase, Transformation phase, Presentation phase, and Reflection phase. Positive coaching comprises five process as follows: Construct the positive relation, Set a clear and challenging goal, Implement a challenging goal to smooth practice, Set a more challenging goal and practice smoothly, and Evaluate and expand the experience, reward the outcome and discovery
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An Analysis of Digital Literacy Skills among Thai University Seniors
No full textDigital literacy and the associated skills are becoming the basic and essential skill set of any employer that wishes to survive in a highly competitive world. Given the global importance of these skills for many sectors including education, medicine, information technology, tourism, etc., the researchers sought to determine which digital literacy skills were most important in using digital technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information in order to function in a knowledge society. From a multistage random sampling survey of 400 second semester university seniors finishing their degrees in 2014 at 9 Thai public and private universities, it was determined that the ability to evaluate was the most important skill indicator in the development of digital literacy. Analysis was conducted by use of LISREL 8.72
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Determinants Of Consumer Decision Making Of A Common Ticketing System In Bangkok’s Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Systems
Full text linkThe word "commuter" is an American invention. In the 1840s people living in the suburbs could pay a reduced or "commuted" fare to use the trains to get into the cities. The world's worst commute is in Bangkok, Thailand, where people spend about 2 hours a day travelling to and from work. At peak times the average speed of traffic in Bangkok is 7 mph with the total number of vehicles with Bangkok license plates hitting 8.55 million, double the 4.28 registered in 2004. There is hope however as Bangkok during this period has delivered several commuter rail systems. The 15 year old ‘Skytrain’ system has just passed its 2 billionth rider while the 10 year old subway sees 240,000 riders a day. Bangkok’s newest airport ‘rail-link’ system to the suburban international airport while designed for air travelers, has become an access point for suburban commuters. With these three systems however there is no common ticketing system that allows transfer between systems, thus the reason for this paper’s research. Simple Random Sampling was used to obtain questionaries’ from 300 Bangkok commuters in which it was determined that individual decision making has the greatest influence, both directly and indirectly, on the use of a common ticketing system. External variables has the second greatest influence, again both directly and indirectly with a commuter’s personal habits influencing the decision making process in only a limited but direct way.
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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