Development on Child-Centered Learning Activities in schools under Kalasin Primary Educational Service Area Office ๒

Abstract

The purposes of the research were 1) to study the components and the indicators of child-centered learning activities in schools under Kalasin Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 2) to study current conditions and desirable conditions of child-centered learning activities, and 3) to develop guidelines of child-centered learning activities.  The research had been conducting for 3 phases.  The first phase was the study of the components and the indicators of child-centered learning activities conducted by 5 academic experts; the second phase was the study of current conditions and desirable conditions of child-centered learning activities conducted by sampling group which consisted of school administrators and teachers for 424 persons selected by Stratified Random Sampling using the table of Krejcie and Morgan (Krejcie and Morgan; referred by BoonchomSrisa-ard, B.E.2545); and phase 3 wasguidelines development of child-centered learning activities duplicatedBest Practice from 3 pilot schools by 6 experts.The guidelines were inspected, assured, and appraised by 9 experts using Focus Group method.The study tools were questionnaire, interview, focus group record, and evaluation form.  Statistics used to analyze data were index of item-objective congruence (IOC), percentage, MEAN, standard deviation (SD), discrimination,  the entire coefficient of reliability at 0.96.