Developing Teachers’ Competency on Assessment of 21st Century Skills

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop a distance training package on the assessment of 21^st century skills and 2) to develop teachers’ competency in assessment of 21^st century skills. The samples were 38 teachers who participated in this distance training in Nonthaburi and neighboring provinces. The research tools include: 1) the distance training package which is composed of 4 units; 2) a learning achievement test. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the effect size calculation.

The research findings were: 1) The experts assessed the training package as a whole. was at the highest level, two aspects that content and utilization had the most appropriate, the presentation aspect was appropriate at a high level, and 2) teachers’ competency after the training had higher scores than before the training with a large difference. The effect size was 1.472, with the learning improvement score after training increased by 39.68 percent from before the training.