Administration for Educational Measurement and Evaluation of Basic Education Schools in 21st Century

Abstract

This thesis was designed as a mixed methodology based on qualitative and quantitative research. The research objectives were 1) to study the factors of administration for educational measurement and evaluation of basic education school in 21st century, and 2) to propose practical guidelines of administration for educational measurement and evaluation of basic education school in 21st century. The population of this research included 2,361 secondary schools under the Office of Basic Education Commission. The samples consisted of 188 secondary schools which were carried out by multi-stage sampling technique. There were 3 respondents from each school which included one school director, one deputy school director in academic department or other person in charge, and one head of measurement and evaluation affair or other person in charge, in the total of 564 respondents. The instruments used for data collection were a five-rating scale questionnaire, opinionnaire, and semistructured interview form. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and content analysis. The findings of this research were as follows : 1) There were 5 factors of administration for educational measurement and evaluation of basic education school in 21st century which were named as follows ; (1) enhancing the knowledge and skills in educational measurement and evaluation, (2) setting the system of educational measurement and evaluation, (3) operational processing on educational measurement and evaluation, (4) monitoring on educational measurement and evaluation, and (5) supportive system on educational measurement and evaluation., and 2) The practical guidelines of administration for educational measurement and evaluation of basic education schools in 21st century were covered in 5 aspects for the total of 96 practical guidelines as follows ; (1) the aspect of enhancing the knowledge and skills in educational measurement and evaluation consisted of 24 practical guidelines, (2) the aspect of setting the system of educational measurement and evaluation consisted of 24 practical guidelines, (3) the aspect of operational processing on educational measurement and evaluation consisted of 18 practical guidelines, (4) the aspect of monitoring on educational measurement and evaluation consisted of 15 practical guidelines, and (5) the aspect of supportive system on educational measurement and evaluation consisted of 15 practical guidelines.