Abstract:
The objective of this independent study is to investigate marketing factors in selecting tutorial schools by high school students in Mueang District, Surat Thani Province. It focuses on the significance o each marking factor, i.e. product element, price and other user cost, place, promotion and education, process, productivity and quality, people, and physical evidence. Moreover, this study examines the differences in significance the average value of each market factor based on the personal perspective. The method used for collecting data is set of questionnaires from the sample group which consists of 336 students from 7 tutorial schools, which are legally registered. All the data are analyzed by using basic statistical methods, frequency value, percentage, average, standard deviation, t-test statistic and One-Way ANOVA. This analysis is to determine the differences of 8 marketing factors.
The results showed that the most significant factor for students are productivity and quality, people, physical evidence, process, product element and place of tutorial centers. The rest of the factors have a medium level of significance. When all the factors are ranked with respect to the significance, the top 3 factors are productivity and quality, people and physical evidence respectively. On the other hand, students rate price and other user cost as the lowest significant factor.
The results of the hypothesis indicate that the male and female students consider place, process, productivity and quality, and physical evidence, have the same significance. However, the product element, price and other user cost, promotion and education and people are different in significance at 0.05 level.
The second finding from the study is that junior and senior high school students give the same significance to product element factor, but the rest of the marketing factors are different in significance at 0.05 level.
The next finding from the study shows that students, whose majors are Scientific- Mathematic, Artistic-Mathematic and Artistic-Linguistic, rate the promotion and education factors as having the same significance. However, the rest of the factors are rated differently by different majors at 0.05 level.
Moreover, the study found that students with high grade point averages and those with low grade point averages consider that these factors; price and other user cost, and promotion and education, have the same significance. However, they consider that product element. Place, processes, productivity and quality, people and physical evidence have the different significance at 0.05 level.
In summary, the study shows that students from 7 tutorial school give the same significance at 0.05 level to the eight marketing factors.
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