Causal Factor Affecting Qualified Physicist of Physics Students in Thailand
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The previous qualitative studies of researchers found that qualified physicist is the attributes that appeared in the study of natural phenomena behaviors and the ability of knowledge creation in physics through scientific processes morally and ethically under the personal identity with a good attitude towards Physics. Many Factors enhanced qualified physicists as perceived by lecturers and physics personnel in Thailand. There were interesting to see what factors will influence the qualified physicist. The purpose of this research was to study the causal effect on the qualified physicist of physics students in Thailand. The samples were 700 third- and fourth-year of Physics students. The online respondents were 837 (over 137 people), divided into 417 Education and 420 Science students. Data was collected using an online questionnaire that consisted of 3 parts: general information, qualified physicist, and the factors that influenced qualified physicists. The path analysis of the structural equation model used PLS-SEM. The results showed that 11 paths were statistically significant. There were 5 positive influence factors on statistically significant qualified physicists at the level of .01 consisting of good attitude towards Physics, experiences in Sciences and Mathematics, opportunities in Physics academics, teaching, and learning the Physics model and, the characteristics of a role model in physics. The results analysis of the importance-performance matrix showed that all 7 latent variables resulted in an efficiency level related to qualified physicists higher than 65 percent.
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