Learning Network of Technical Teacher Training to Researchers in Vocational Education, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study requirements, components, making, and evaluating of learning network for developing technician teachers to be researchers. The target group chosen for this research was teachers and academic staffs of Technical College UbonRatchathani who participated the project of developing technician teachers to be researchers. There were 30 people who joined that consisted of government teachers of 22 people and 8 permanent teachers that they volunteered. The statistics used for the research were basic statistics used for quantitative data analysis and descriptive statistics used for qualitative data analysis. The result of this research showed that 96.7 % of people in target group needed the learning network for developing technician teachers to be researchers. The component of the network made in this research consisted of two parts. The first part was the duty of being data server controlled by Rajabhat UbonRatchathani University and the second one was Technical College UbonRatchathani responsible for the duty of being a client included information exchange, giving advice, being guidance in term of consultant researcher. Assessing of the network by 3 luminaries was that overview of learning network was appropriate at a high level (Mean = 4.35, S.D.= 0.51) and the appropriation in term of network management was the most average (Mean = 4.42, S.D.= 1.32). After three months of running the experiment evaluated satisfaction of the operation of the network by the target group resulted that the overview of the target group satisfied with the operation of learning network for developing technical teachers to be researchers was the most average (Mean = 4.64, S.D. = 0.97) and satisfaction of developing technical teachers to be researchers was the most average as well ( = 4.93, S.D.= 1.37).