A Study of Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Situations on Educational Management of the Faculty of Education, UbonRatchathani Rajabhat University

Abstract

This research aimed 1) to study effects of COVID-19 pandemic situations in daily life, teaching and learning, and working of lecturers, students, and affiliate networks in educational management of Faculty of Education, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University and 2) to provide the suggestions for educational management in the situation of COVID-19 pandemic at Faculty of Education and the related organizations. The samples used to study consisted of lecturers, students, and affiliate network divided into two groups: 28 informants giving qualitative data and 922 participants giving quantitative data. They were randomized by multi-stage sampling. The research instruments were issues used for group discussion, an interview form, and a questionnaire. They were created by the researchers and checked to find the quality of the instruments by analyzing to find the content validity conducted by the experts, discrimination, and reliability. The analysis of qualitative and quantitative data was done by doing content analysis, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation, and Analysis of Variance: ANOVA.  

The research findings were found as follows.

1. The effects of COVID-19 pandemic in daily life, teaching and learning, and working of lecturers, students, and affiliate networks in the overall were found that everyone knew the COVID-19 pandemic situations, had knowledge, and protected himself/herself to be safe from the COVID-19 pandemic in the levels ranged from a high level to the highest level.
2. The suggestions for educational management to prepare and cope with the crisis situations that could happen in the future included (1) developing the buildings, places, and temperature measurement tools, (2) helping the students who were from the families affected the COVID-19 pandemic by extending the deadline of the payment of the registration free and helping the students to earn extra income, (3) regulating policies and planning good implementation, (4) regulating policies for online and regular teaching and learning, (5) arranging classrooms and devices used to teach online to be enough for teaching online, (6) creating realization for lecturers to develop themselves, (7) developing lecturers and staffs working outside the university but involving with producing teachers to have ability in effective online teaching and learning management, and (8) informing or demonstrating how to use computers to access online learning.