THE PRIORITY NEEDS OF ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LOEI PROVINCE BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF PERSONALIZED LEARNING

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the actual state and the desirable state of academic management of secondary schools in Loei province based on the concept of personalized learning and 2) to analyze the priority needs of academic management of secondary schools in Loei province based on the concept of personalized learning. The population of the research were 4 secondary schools in Loei province consisted of Loeipittayakom school Chiangkhan school Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Loei and Srisongkram school. The Informants consisted of 32 people using the tables of Krejcie and Morgan. The research instrument in this study was the 5 - point rating scaled questionnaire of the actual state and the desirable state of academic management of secondary schools in Loei province based on the concept of personalized learning. The data were analyzed by frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation and modified priority needs index. The research findings indicated that, overall, the actual state was at the middle level and was sorted from the highest to the lowest as follows: the development of media innovation and educational technology, the curriculum development respectively, the learning process development and the measurement and evaluation. The desirable state was, overall, at the high level and was sorted from the highest to the lowest as follows: the learning process development, the development of media innovation and educational technology, the curriculum development respectively and the measurement and evaluation. The result of priority need analysis turned out that the first priority need fell on the measurement and evaluation, followed by the learning process development, curriculum development and development of media innovation and educational technology, respectively.