The Development of a Management Model to Contribute Discipline, Virtue, Morality, and Expected Value for Students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province

Abstract

The current study was conducted in a mixed-method design employing both quantitative method and qualitative method to cover the purposes of the study of 1) to investigate background information in setting activities that contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province, 2) to develop a management model to contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province, 3) to evaluate the activities in the management model to contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province, and 4) to evaluate students’ desirable characteristics after participating the activities in the management model to contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province. The samples were divided into 3 groups including a group of
3 administrators and 57 teachers in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province in the background information study phase, 2) a group of 454 Prathomsuksa 4-6 students in the discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value development phase, and 3) a group of 12 teachers in the evaluation of activities to develop discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value phase. The instruments were 1) teacher evaluation instruments including a teachers’ knowledge evaluation form that focus on the ability in learning management design, a teachers’ learning activity management skill evaluation form, and an evaluation form of Prathomsuksa teachers’ opinions toward the model and 2) student evaluation instruments including a student desirable characteristic evaluation form used by class teachers in students evaluation designed in 5 levels of very high, high, average, low, and very low. The items were related to students' morality according to 8 aspects of desirable characteristics. The instruments were evaluated by experts. The statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean score, and standard deviation. The qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis.
The results of the study were as follows. 1. In terms of the background information of the school, it was found that 23 activities related to discipline, virtue, morality, and the expected value were held in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province in 2018. 11 activities (47.83%) were found to present the improvement of students’ desirable characteristics while 12 activities (52.17%) were not. In 2019, 18 activities (78.26%) were found to present the improvement of students’ desirable characteristics, and only 5 activities including responsibility contest, workshop related to morality in Buddhism days, Dharma teaching activities, morality plays such as A Grateful Child, Learning Bear cub, Granma’ and Cloth, and 12 value activities were not found be effective in improving students’ desirable characteristics.
2. The evaluation of the management model to contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province, indicates a very high level of appropriateness (\bar{x}= 4.47, S.D = 0.74). In detail, the aspect of the implementation of activities (\bar{x}= 4.62, S.D = 0.60), characteristics of the model (\bar{x}= 4.48, S.D = 0.87), and value of the model (\bar{x}=4.31, S.D = 0.87) were found to be in a descending order.
3. The evaluation of the management model to contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students in Indhapanya Watyaiindharam Municipal School, Chonburi Town Municipality, Chonburi Province indicates that teachers could design learning management to contribute discipline, virtue, morality, and expected value for students. The average score was found at a high level.
4. The evaluation of students’ desirable characteristics after using the developed model indicates that 20 desirable characteristics were observed. Students’ average rating was at a very high level.