The Follow-up Study of School-based Curriculum Implementation in History Subject at Watprasatnigon School, Lang Suan District, Chumphon Province

Abstract

The objective of this research was to follow-up the study of school-based curriculum implementation in history subject at Watprasatnigon School, Lang Suan district, Chumphon province using the systematic approach on 4 aspects; structure, input, process and output. The target population consisted of 3 school administrators, 10 history teachers, 734 students and 582 students’ parents. The research instruments of this study were the interview, the observation form, and the questionnaires, respectively. Then the data was separately analyzed as the quantitative data using calculating frequencies, percentages, mean, and standard deviation and as the qualitative data using content analysis method. The results were compared with the specified criteria in each aspect in order to examine the appropriateness of the curriculum. The research results were found in four aspects: 1) in aspect of the structure, the objectives of curriculum were relevant to the national and local curriculum, 2) in aspect of the Input factors in curriculum implementation, due to the shortage of history teachers who graduated in history, the teachers should be encouraged to acquire more experience in teaching and learning activities in history class. Also, they should be supervised in teaching, 3) in aspect of teaching and learning process, even though the history teachers had planning and preparation for teaching, the teaching and learning activities were emphasized on lecturing, and that makes the students uncomfortable in the history teaching and learning. The history teachers then need to improve teaching and learning activities to get the students engaged in the history teaching and learning, 4) in aspect of the output, 100% of the students passed history based on the assessment criterion. They also had highly positive awareness and attitude towards history learning at 56.83%, and the satisfactions of the students’ parents and the teachers over the students’ record in history subject were at a high level (3.64)