Development of an Authentic Competency – Based Assessment Model in the Project Course According to the Curriculum of the Certificate of Vocational Education (Cert. Voc. Ed.), Sisaket College of Agriculture and Technology

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the conditions of the authentic competency – based assessment, 2) to create an authentic competency – based assessment model, 3) to try out the authentic competency – based assessment model, and 4) to evaluate the authentic competency – based assessment model. The research was conducted as qualitative research with the following steps. The first step was to study the conditions of the authentic competency – based assessment model. The target group included 10 students participating in the vocational education project for rural development, Sisaket College of Agriculture and Technology. The second step was to create an authentic competency – based assessment model. The target group included 7 experts. The third step was to try out the authentic competency – based assessment model. The target group included 30 students registering in the Agriculture and Technology Program. The research instrument were an observation form, an interview form, and a questionnaire. The statistics used were mean and standard deviation.    

          The research findings were as follows.       

1. The conditions of the authentic competency – based assessment included 2 items. The first item was the development of the authentic competency – based assessment model consisting of 5 components: 1) teachers, 2) learners, 3) environment, 4) learning media, and 5) learning environment (outside classrooms). The second item was the processes of the development of authentic competency – based assessment model consisting of 6 components: 1) regulating learning competency, 2) curriculum of designing learning management, 3) learning management according to the authentic competency – based assessment, 4) preparing teachers, 5) learning management based on career groups of learners, and 6) developing learners who learned activities for behavior learning.
2. The creation of the authentic competency – based assessment model, the regulation of the problems, and the resolution of the authentic competency – based assessment model consisted of 3 aspects: 1) related basic information, 2) opinions about guidelines for organizing the authentic competency – based assessment model in the project course consisting of 5 aspects, and 3) opinions towards the authentic competency – based assessment model in the project course consisting of 6 aspects that needed to be developed.
3. The results of the trail of the authentic competency – based assessment model according to the curriculum of the Certificate of Vocational Education (Cert. Voc. Ed.), Sisaket College of Agriculture and Technology showed that the authentic competency – based assessment model consisted of 1) studying the synthesis of the career base, 2) developing learning, 3) creating learning management competency, 4) preparing teachers, and 5) implementing learning based on the careers.
4. The results of the evaluation showed that the authentic competency – based assessment model in the project course in the overall was at a high level ( =4.49, S= .41).