1. The relationship between Social skills and Learning Achievements of Business students at Asia Pacific International University
Walaiporn Seksuntisakul, Wanlee Putsom,
Damrong Sattayawaksakul, and Nittaya Leenothai

2. Introduction
Education institutions are crucial to the development of country:
Promotes higher academic and professional knowledge
Mission of high education institutions:
admits qualified students
provide informational technology system
Expose information about the curriculum and the learning management system
Provide qualified instructors
All institutions must add their own goal to produce graduates with these learning outcomes.

3. Key Factors: Social Skills
Manipulate emotions and interpersonal with others appropriately
Chuawanlee (1999) stated that “students with social skills are able to use their skills to influence others and compromise conflicting issues, and ending the dispute to cooperate and work together with others.”
These activities will later provide graduates with social skills and real academic achievement

4. Faculty of Business Administration : APIU
Provide graduates with skills and knowledge according to the holistic educational philosophy of the SDA church.
Begins operating in1990
Objective: provide a student centered education which produces competent business graduates both in undergraduate and graduate levels

5. Research Objectives:
1. To examine the level of social skills and academic achievements of business students at Asia Pacific International University. 2. To examine the relationship between social skills and academic achievements of students at Asia Pacific International University.

6. Literature Review Social Skills
Chayadech(1993)- described social skill as the skills people need in order to live with others in society. “They are social living skills and group process skills.”
Pangsangsee (1996)- defined social skills as the ability to live in society happily, accepted by society members, and be a member who contribute to society.
Westwood(1997)- referred social skills as behavior components of individual that is important to help to interact with others positively and maintain the relationship.
Siriphiboonphol(2009)- referred social skills as the ability to live in society happily ,recognize self role, be responsible, and accepted by society members.
Social skills are skills that we use to interact with each other, act and behave in the society, and adapt with the circumstances and environment.

7. Literature Review Learning Achievement
Wangpanich(2009)- defined learning achievement as the features and capabilities of individuals arising from learning, changing of behavior, and learning experiences from training.
Vacheravarakarn(1999)- explained learning achievement as outcomes from learning, training, and experiences from school, home and other environments.
Training & learning
Values
Moral
Sense

8. Dimension of Social Skills and Learning Achievement
Learning Outcomes
Communication skills
Speech skills
Analytical & problem solving skill
Moral and Ethical
Knowledge
Cognitive skills
Interpersonal skills & responsibility
Quantitative Analytical skills
Communication& Informational technology skills
Activity skills
Listening skills
Expression skills

9. Dimension of Social Skills and Learning Achievement
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Social Skills
Communication skills
Speech skills
Listening skills
Analytical and problem solving skills
Activity skills
Expression skills
Learning Achievements

10. Research Method 1. Approach
Quantitative research approach was adopted for the study
Analyst use the deductive method to collect prior theories and data to set up the proposition
2. Population and sample
Population for this study was the business students who registered in Thai programs
80 students registered

11. Methodology 3. Research Instrumentation
The instrumentation used in this research was questionnaire which is divided into three sections.
Section 1: Demographic profile
Section 2:Twenty four questions regarding to 6 social skills
Section 3: Nineteen questions regarding to the learning achievements
Questions in the second and third section were rate from 1-5, least important to most important

12. Methodology 4.Data Analysis Frequency & Percentage Demographic profile
Mean and standard deviation
Level of social skills
Level of learning achievements
Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression Analysis
Relationship between social skills and learning achievement

13. Results 1.Gender 2.Age Gender Quantity (People) Percentage (%) Male 25
37.30
Female 42
62.70
Total 67
100
2.Age
Age (year)
Quantity (People)
Percentage (%)
Under 18 2 3
18-21 32
47.8
22-25
Under 25 1
1.5

14. Results (cont.) 3. Level of education Year Quantity (n) Percentage (%)
Freshman 14
20.90
Sophomore
Junior 18
26.90
Senior 21
31.30
*Red is the highest amount

15. Results: Level of Social Skills and Learning Achievement
Order
Sub-dimension
Cronbach’s Alpha
Mean
S.D.
Level
Social Skills
0.892 1.
Communication skills
3.35
0.93
Moderate 2.
Speech skills
3.40
0.65 3.
Listening skills
3.97
0.56
High 4.
Analytical& problem solving skills
3.72
0.61 5.
Activity skills
3.90
0.60 6.
Expression skills
0.54

16. Results: Level of Social Skills and Learning Achievement
Order
Sub-dimension
Cronbach’s Alpha
Mean
S.D.
Level
Learning Achievement
0.918 1.
Moral & ethical
3.81
0.59
High 2.
Knowledge
3.75
0.66 3.
Cognitive skills
3.66
0.62 4.
Interpersonal skills & responsibility
3.87
0.61 5.
Quantitative analytical, Communication & information technologies skills
3,77
0.67

17. Results (cont.)
The relationship of all sub-dimensions of social skills and learning achievement
** Correlation is significant at the level 0.01 level
* Correlation is significant at the level

18. There were some tests before the Multiple Regression Analysis
Results (cont.)
There were some tests before the Multiple Regression Analysis
Test multicollinearity

19. Results (cont.)
2.The Test of Normality from the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method shows the value of 0.20 from all 67 samples. It means the data were normality.
3. To test the Heteroscedasticity, the Breusch and Pagan method was employed and the value equal to It means the valiance of data are stable.
4. The RESET Test was employed to test the linear regression model. The non-linear combinations of the explanatory variables have no power in explaining the response variable, the model is specified.

20. Summary
The highest level of sub-dimension of social skills was listening skills (3.97) and the highest level of sub-dimension for learning achievement was interpersonal skills and responsibility (3.87).
Communication skills possess positive relationship with thinking and commenting skills, analytical and problem solving skills, learning achievement sub-dimension of moral and ethical, knowledge, and quantitative analytical, communication, and information technology skills.
Emotion and expression skills was the only social skills variable predicting the learning achievement.