The purposes of this study were to investigate l.political information exposure to mass media 2. political participation of people in Bangkok metropolitan area. 3.The relationship between political information exposure to mass media and political participation and 4.The difference between demographic characteristics of people in Bangkok metropolitan area with political information exposure to mass media and political participation. This was a survey study. The sample included 400 people in the Bangkok metropolitan area. The questionnaires were administered and the statistical package program was used to analyze the data through frequency percentage means standard deviations t-test f-test and One-Way ANOVA. The results revealed that political information exposure was most exposed via television because it included pictures and sound which were most reliable. However people in Bangkok metropolitan area political participation was at low level. There was no significant difference between political participation and political information exposure to mass media and people with different gender occupied whereas there was a significant difference but people in Bangkok metropolitan area with different age income and education levels. There was a significant relationship between political participation and political information exposure to mass media at .05 level. The suggestions included that political to be more advantage and power. Political participation people in Bangkok to exercise their voting rights by the elected representatives of most. Following by a list of activists as voters before the election and persuade other to exercise their voting rights respectively.

This research is a quantitative research in which data were gathered from 420 students of Rajamangala University of Technologys students in Bangkok. Data were analyzed for frequency percentage mean sum and correlation. The level of signif icance is .05. Results indicated that students conversed with friends mostly on the issue of political information and got most information on politics and political event from television media. Students were knowledgeable on politics in high level particularly about the duty of people. Students had moderate level of political participations mostly by voting in local-level election. Media exposure to follow political events and information has positive relations with knowledge about political party rights in removal of Representatives and eligibility for voting. Media exposure to converse about political information has positive relations with political participations grouping for conservation and revival of traditions customs and local wisdoms

The objective of this research was to compare the study achievement on Thai Government and Politics of Higher Technical Certificate students of Rajamangala Institute of Technology Poh Chang Art Campus based on the teaching techniques. The total of 49 Poh Chang art students of the 2nd Semester 2002 academic year were simple random sampled and then randomly divided into 2 grcJps; 20 students for the experimental group and the rest for controlled one. The learning-centered teaching technique was used for the experimental group whereas the standard teaching technique was for the other. This research was nonrandomized control group pretest-posttest design. The research tool were the measurement for study achievement teaching plan of StudentTeams-Achievement division: STAD) and the group observation form for collecting the qualitative and quantitative data. Statistics applied for quantitative data analysis was ANCOVA (One-Way Analysis of Covariance) with the pretest score as the covariate. Interpretation was used for qualitative data analysis. The findings revealed that 1.There was a significant difference between the study achievement of the students at the level of 0.05 based on teaching techniques. 2.The experimental group had a better team working performance.