The analysis of teachers’ instructional media design thinking ability and media needs in schools of enhancing instructional management for small schools project driven by Thepsatri Rajabhat University

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the instructional media design thinking ability and media needs amongst school teachers in enhancing instructional management for small-size schools project conducted by Thepsatri Rajabhat University. Data is collected from 65 teachers and administrators in 25 schools in Lop Buri, Singha Buri, Sara Buri, and Sa Kaeo provinces, using accidental sampling methods. The data is gathered using an online questionnaire named “The Problems and Deficiencies for Teachers’ and Administrators’ Development in Enhancing Instructional Management for Small-size Schools’ Projects. Fundamental statistics analyses quantitative data, while qualitative data is interpreted by content analysis and analytic induction. The research finds that:

            1)  teacher in the project have medium instructional media design thinking ability, while overall aspects are at a medium level, except for understanding and accessing media problems is at a high level. The result shows that the highest ability is students’ media application needs analysis; conversely, the lowest ability is media variety creation. Furthermore, 2)almost all schools in the project need encouragement, improvement, and support for media or innovation with instruction, which are handmade media, games, online media, or applications that allow students to learn individually, brand new, interesting, user-friendly, good-looking, and portable. The media, especially Thai language reading and writing and science media schools require staff, knowledge, training, activity, and maintenance budgets for computers and media creations to be more effective and fit for students’ needs in each school’s context.