Development of General Education Assessment System of Nakhon Phanom

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to study the assessment status of the General Education Courses, to develop the assessment system and to examine the assessment system’s effectiveness of the General Education Courses of Nakhon Phanom University. This study used multiple methodology. The findings were as follows: the students’ opinions mean towards the operations on measurement and assessment of the instructors who taught the General Education Courses was at 3.27 which was at the medium level. The General Education Course assessment system consisted of 3 quality indicators and 16 criteria: the first indicator was the planning of measurement and assessment with 6 criteria, the second indicator was the implementation of measurement with 7 criteria, and the third indicator with 3 criteria. The results of the examining of the indicators and criterion effectiveness of the assessment system were found that all items of the quality indicators were appropriate at the highest level except only one item that was at a high level. The effectiveness assessment results were found that all aspects were at the highest level. The aspects of Utility Standards and Accuracy Standards possessed the highest mean ( = 4.65). The second was the aspect of Propriety Standards ( = 4.63). The third was the aspect of Feasibility Standards ( = 4.60), respectively. And the assessment results of the changing level of the samples’characteristics as the Curriculum Mapping for the learning outcome standard responsibility in the course were overall at the highest level ( = 4.55).