Developing Creative Media Production Skills of the Elderly Society in Surin Province

Abstract

     The objectives of this research were 1) to develop the creative media production skills of the elderly society in Surin province, 2) to compare the learning outcomes of the elderly before and after developing media production skills, and 3) to study the satisfaction of the elderly towards developing creative and safe media production skills. The target group was 46 volunteers participating who were over 50 years old in Surin province. The research tools were a pre-test, a post-test, and an satisfaction questionnaire. The statistical methods for data analysis using percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, and comparative statistics with t-test dependent. The results showed that volunteers could create 46 infographics and 46 video clips. The results of the pre-test and post-test of the trainees showed that the average score was 11.91 points and 13.71 points, respectively. The training showed the post-test had average scores higher than the pre-test with statistical significance at the .05 level. And the trainees had average scores of overall satisfaction levels towards participation in the development of creative and safe media production skills in Surin province at a very high level. The mean was 4.38 and the standard deviation was 0.66.