Abstract:
The purpose of this Research is (1) to study the learning process of Communication Arts's students on the Public Relations--PR Research course,and (2) to study the essential factor in regard to support the learning process of PR Research. It was a qualitative research methodology consisted of 5 stages (1) informed the students in order to motivate them to develop the research problem and title, (2) during the research workshop of students, the lecturer gave them an advice of PR Research, (3) audited the research project workshop, (4) presented the research result in each group of research project, and (5) analyzed in the essential factor of students' PR research by checking with the students in the class.
The result of this study can be summarize as follows: (1) The students can be developed the 6 PR research projects in the issue of evaluation of the PR project campaign, and the PR media. (2) There are 4 steps of the Learning process such as (2.1) PR research project planning, (2.2) data collecting and analyzed the data, (2.3) research reporting, and (2.4) research presenting. And (3) There are 3 kinds of essential factor of the effective process learning i.e. the lecturer as an escort, the students as a researcher, and the course description.