Study of Soft Skills that Students Need for Self-Development at Suvarnabhumi Institute of Technology

Suwit Salamteh, Nalinee Sutsavade, Sumitra Yapradit

Suvarnabhumi Intitute of Technology, Siam University

This research objective was 1. Study the Soft Skills that students need for self-development at Suvarnabhumi Institute of Technology.; 2. Compare opinions of Soft Skills that students need for self-development at Suvarnabhumi Institute of Technology by faculty and year. The population studied was students from 4 faculties, totaling 393 people. The sample size determination by Krejci and Morgan, the sample size was 220 people. and random sampling. The instrument used was a questionnaire. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, Mean, standard deviation, one-way analysis of variance (One-way ANOVA) and content analysis. The research results found that: 1. Soft skills that students need for self-development were overall at a high level (x ̅ = 4.41, SD = 0.49), ranked as follows: teamwork skills (x ̅ = 4.47, SD = 0.56), life skills (x ̅ = 4.46, SD = 0.56) and communication skills (x ̅ = 4.43, SD = 0.53); 2. Comparison of students' opinions on Soft Skills that they need for overall self-development, classified by faculty, found that overall and in each aspect, students from the 4 faculties had different needs in 8 aspects at a statistical significance level of .05. And classified by year, found that overall and in each aspect, students from the 4-year levels had different needs in 6 aspects at a statistical significance level of .05.

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