Situations, Needs, and Guidelines for Developing the Integrated Learning Management of the Schools under Nakhon Phanom Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the current and desirable situations, (2) to assess the needs, and (3) to develop the guidelines for developing the integrated learning management of the schools under Nakhon Phanom Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The samples consisted of 89 school administrators and 341 teachers. They were randomized by stratified sampling. The research instruments consisted of four forms: 1) a questionnaire asking for the current situations of the integrated learning management, 2) a questionnaire asking for the desirable situations of the integrated learning management, 3) a structural interview form, and 4) an evaluation form used to evaluate the appropriateness and the possibility of the guidelines for developing the integrated learning management. The statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Modified Priority Needs Index (PNI_Modified).

            The research findings were as follows.

1. The current situations of the integrated learning management in the overall were at a high level, and the desirable situations of the integrated learning management in the overall were at the highest level. 
2. The findings of the needs assessment of the integrated learning management showed that the needs of the integrated learning management organized from the highest to the lowest mean scores for the first two priorities were the integration within the classrooms and the integration within the subject groups.
3. The findings of the evaluation of the guidelines for developing the integrated learning management showed that the guidelines were appropriate to be used at the highest level (x̄ = 4.55) and possible to be used at a highest level (x̄  = 4.51).