The Development of Training Course on Participatory Preparation System for Vocational Students through Deming Cycle

Abstract

This research aimed were to 1) developing and assessing the appropriateness of participatory preparation system for vocational students through Deming Cycle, and 2)developing and evaluating efficiency of the training course on participatory preparation system for vocational students through Deming Cycle. The target group of the research, recruited specific, comprised mathematic teachers, school administrators, and students under the Vocational Education Commission number of 82 people. The findings of the research were as follows; 1) The participatory preparation system for vocational students through Deming Cycle comprised 3 elements, namely (1) Input (2) Process and (3) Output The appropriateness evaluation result of the preparation system and the training course by experts revealed the highest appropriateness. and 2) The result of development and efficiency evaluation of the training course on participatory preparation system for vocational students through Deming Cycle includes the evaluation result of management manual for participatory preparation system by the trainees, which revealed that the appropriateness of the manual was in the highest level. Meanwhile, the efficiency evaluation of the training course on lesson plan writing through CIPP Model revealed that the context evaluation by experts presented the highest correspondent and appropriateness between 7 training topics and the training objectives, the input evaluation of the course presented the highest level of appropriateness and high correspondence between elements of the course and all items of behavioral objectives. The try-out result of training course revealed the efficiency of the theoretical scores at 86.67/85.51% and the efficiency of the practical scores at 85.63%. The process evaluation revealed the efficiency of the theoretical scores of the training course at 89.04/88.29% and the efficiency practical scores at 89.27%, which were higher than the set criteria of theoretical part at 80/80% and of the practical part at 75%. Moreover, trainees reported the highest appropriateness of the training in overall and output evaluation revealed that the school administrators of the targeted schools assessed for applying knowledge and skills gained from training to teach the preparation lessons by trainees in overall in the highest level. While most vocational students who studied with trained teachers satisfied the preparation lesson provided by the trainees in high level.