DEVELOPMENT OF VOCATIONAL COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING CURRICULUM OF DIGITAL PRINTING OPERATOR FOR NEW STAFFS IN PRINTING HOUSES IN BANGKOK

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to investigate vocational competencies of digital printing operators, 2) to develop vocational competency training of digital printing operator for new staffs in printing houses in Bangkok,  3) to assess learning achievement of the trainees who passed the vocational competency training and 4) to conduct a survey about the satisfaction of the trainees towards vocational competency training of digital printing operator. The sample of 10 new staffs who are in a position of a digital printing operator in Bangkok was targeted using simple random sampling. The result elucidated that 1) the vocational competencies of digital printing operators which are needed by printing houses involved an ability in preparing, operating, problem-solving, maintaining, quality control as well as performing all tasks safely. 2) Assessing quality of vocational competency training of digital printing operator by content experts illustrated the highest level on overall quality and a high level on developing quality and effective training as evidenced by 83.78 and 83.50 percent respectively which are higher than indicated level, and it is also ensured to be practical for the real training. 3) The learning achievement of trainees after training was significantly higher than before training with .01. 4) The satisfaction of the trainees towards the training was in a high level.