Factors related to students’ planned activities of some universities in Ho Chi Minh City

Abstract

Planning is one of the important activities in our life. It has many relations with other activities, characteristics, skills, and also can help us achieve our goals more easily. However, the correlations and correlation level of students’ planning activities (SPA) with other factors related to student’s abilities, characteristics and grade point average have received quite little attention of researchers. The objective of this study is to find out the relations and  relation  level of SPA with others as extroversion characteristics, high - order thinking, active learning, purposes of learning, persistence in learning actions, group working, working alone and grade point average. In the pilot survey conducted on 296 university students, exploratory factor analysis and 1^st reliability of individual items analysis (Cronbach's Alpha index) were applied to select valuable items of each factor in the questionnaire. In the main survey stage, 498 university students were randomly selected from their classes and responded to a questionnaire on their perceptions. By applying frequency, mean, standard deviation, correlation and regression analysis, it was found that factors like high - order thinking, active learning, persistence in learning actions, group working activities, working alone have positively related to students’ planning activities.