A Study of The Current Situations, Needs Assessment for Sustainable School Development to Enhance Student Competency According to the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization under the Office of the Basic Education Commission
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This research article aims to 1) study the current and desired conditions for developing sustainable educational institutions to enhance student competency in accordance with the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, 2) assess the needs for developing sustainable educational institutions to enhance student competency in accordance with the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, and 3) study guidelines for developing sustainable educational institutions to enhance student competency in accordance with the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The analysis is based on a matrix and is a survey research study to assess needs, covering all 6 components: administration and management, stakeholders, participation, evaluation, personnel development, and curriculum and learning development. The target group was selected using a purposive sampling method, specifically educational institutions participating in the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization project: continuing, maintaining, extension related to the royal view in an economic sufficiency based on "Kok Nong Na of Kindness and Hope," under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, in the 2021 academic year, totaling 102 institutions, including 102 school administrators and 102 core agricultural civilization teachers, for a total of 204 people. The research instrument was a questionnaire on the current and desired conditions for developing sustainable educational institutions to enhance student competency in accordance with the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. With percentages, frequencies, means, standard deviations, priority ranking indices for needs, and matrix analysis.
The research findings indicate that 1) the overall results of the study on the current and desired states of sustainable school development are at a high level for both the current state ( = 3.61) and the desired state (
= 4.21). 2) The results of the needs assessment showed that the most important need was curriculum and learning development (PNImodified = 0.41), followed by personnel development (PNImodified = 0.18), evaluation (PNImodified = 0.16), stakeholders and participation (PNImodified = 0.11), and administration and management (PNImodified = 0.08), respectively. 3) The study on guidelines for sustainable school development to enhance student competency based on the Royal Guidelines for Agricultural Civilization approach under the Office of the Basic Education Commission found thru matrix analysis that curriculum and learning development was in the third part, indicating that school development was at a level that required urgent improvement.
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