Factors Related to Reflective Thinking of Student Teacher of Rajamangala University of Technology

This research aimed to investigate correlation factors affected reflective thinking of student teachers, to study factors affected reflective thinking of student teachers at Rajamangala University of Technology and to construct a reflective thinking prediction equation of student teachers. The samples were 602 student teachers from Rajamangala University of Technology selected by the multi-stage random sampling. The instrument was a 5-rating-scale questionnaire related to factors and reflective thinking levels of student teachers. The personal information was analyzed by means of descriptive analysis while inferential analysis was used to test the research objectives. The results showed that the seven correlation factors showed positive correlation in the middle stage and were in the following order from the highest to the lowest correlation coefficients, namely reflective thinking activities societal environment, reflective thinking techniques, responsibilities, open-mindedness, physical environment and enthusiasm. It was also found that there were six factors affected and all were able to predict reflective thinking of student teachers included reflective thinking activities, societal, environment, responsibilities, open-mindedness, enthusiasm, and reflective thinking techniques which could be shown in the equation as follows: Y = 0.678+0.298(X-32)+0.240(X-22)+0.193(X-13)+0.129(X-12)+0.103(X-11)+0.054(X-31)