Developmental Guidelines for Improving Learning Quality by Analyzing the Problems and the Obstacles of the Students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of the research were 1) to study and analyze problems and obstacles in learning, 2) to study the level of the problems and the obstacles in learning of the students, and 3) to propose developmental guidelines for improving learning quality by analyzing the problems and the obstacles of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. The samples used in this research were 387 students from Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University enrolling in the academic year of 2022. They were randomized by accidental sampling. The research instrument was a five-rating scale questionnaire. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

            The research findings were as follows.

1. The problems and the obstacles in learning of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University organized from the most frequency to the less frequency were that the students lacked of attention in learning, the students were often absent the classes, the students did not understand the lessons or were not able to take the exam of the subject they were studying effectively, the guardians did not support the students in learning, and the statuses of the students’ economy were poor or the students had to work until they could not learn successfully.
2. The level of the problems and the obstacles in learning of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University in the overall was at a high level. When each aspect was considered, the aspect with the highest mean score of the problems and the obstacles was the learning management, followed by the students and the learning environment. The aspect with the lowest mean score of the problems and the obstacles was the families.
3. The developmental guidelines for improving the learning quality of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University were that the administrators should focus on crating understanding in various ways to make the instructors understand the first way to build the students to want to learn at the beginning, creating teaching media based on the standard under the control of the administrator committees which was considered to be lifted up the academic quality very well, and improving the teaching media to response the understanding of the students and being used to be guidelines for controlling indirectly to make the instructors sacrifice themselves in teaching more than spending time on other activities.