A comparative study of high school students' perception towards school environment according to their demographics at an International School in Bangkok

Abstract

This studymainly aimed to compare the high school students’ perceptions towards school environment according to their gender, nationality, grade and years of studying at anInternational School in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 90 students from grade 10 to 12 got involved in this study. The adapted questionnaire based on Kate (2005) was used to students’ perception towards school environment of 6 indicators including health policies, physical environment, social environment, school-community relation, personal skill building, and access to health services at the selected international school. The collected data was analyzed statistically.The study found the overall level of high school students’ perceptions towards school environment at this international school wereregarded as high,particularly, the highest perception was for Health Policies, and the lowestperception was for School-community Relations.No significant differencesin thestudents’ perceptions towards schoolenvironmentaccording to their gender and gradewere identified, however, significant differences of the students’ perception towards school environment between Non-Thai students and Thai students;between the students studying at the international school of Bangkok for 1-3yearsand 10 years and abovewere determined.