Abstract
The purposes of this research were to study needs of high school students and teachers on competency-based curriculum integrated with local community for high school students, develop a curriculum based on the needs, implement the developed curriculum, and evaluate the developed curriculum. The samples of the needs study stage consisted of 244 high school students, and 82 teachers in schools located in Ubon Ratchathani, and Warinchamrab Municipalities, gained by quota sampling, and those for the curriculum implementation consisted of 34 high school students studying at Luekamhan Warinchamrab School, in the second semester of academic year 2018, gained by cluster sampling. The research instruments were the developed curriculum, questionnaires for the students and the teachers, a test of English expression, a test of writing, and an attitude evaluation form. The findings revealed the students and the teachers rated their needs on competency-based curriculum at a higher level, the developed curriculum consisted of vision, mission to achieve the students’ competency through the aims, contents, and instructional procedures concentrated on practicing and the evaluation focused on performances, the students had significantly higher learning achievement and writing skills after the curriculum implementation than those before the implementation at the level .01. The developed curriculum was evaluated by the students at medium level of its feasibility.
Highlights
The basic education curriculum implementation based on the Educational Act of 1999 in Thailand has occurred some problems in different aspects
The samples of the needs study stage consisted of 244 high school students, and 82 teachers in schools located in Ubon Ratchathani, and Warinchamrab Municipalities, gained by quota sampling, and those for the curriculum implementation consisted of 34 high school students studying at Luekamhan Warinchamrab School, in the second semester of academic year 2018, gained by cluster sampling
The findings revealed the students and the teachers rated their needs on competency-based curriculum at a higher level, the developed curriculum consisted of vision, mission to achieve the students’ competency through the aims, contents, and instructional procedures concentrated on practicing and the evaluation focused on performances, the students had significantly higher learning achievement and writing skills after the curriculum implementation than those before the implementation at the level
Summary
The basic education curriculum implementation based on the Educational Act of 1999 in Thailand has occurred some problems in different aspects. In the aspect of curriculum implementation, or the teaching learning process, the most serious problem was that the teachers used teacher-centered method of teaching, which needed to be shifted. A decade passed there had still occurred several problems concerning the curriculum implementation as identified by the empirical data based on research results conducted by Nillapun et al (2015), which found the basic education core curriculum 2008 cannot reflect the good quality of the students, the administrators and teachers lacked of knowledge and understanding on the curriculum administration in aspects of designing processes for teaching, techniques of authentic assessment, and social and public activity evaluation. A teacher who applies the competency-based instruction needs to continually follow the steps to be successful in practicing this learner centered method
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