A Development of Training Program of Standard Professional Evaluation System for Educational Institutes under the Office of Vocational Education Commission

Abstract

The present study aims to : 1) develop and evaluate and appraisal systems emphasizing professional standards framework of educational institutions under the Office of the Vocational Educational Commission (OVEC), and 2) develop and find the efficiency of the training program on professional standards framework of educational institutions under OVEC. The researcher has systematically and officially developed appraisal systems emphasizing professional standards framework of educational institutions under OVEC. The target group for the development of the system included 12 specialists whereas the group in charge of investigating the efficiency of the developed training program comprises 15 personnel members of Wiang Pa Pao Technical College, ranging from the Heads of Curriculums, Head of Academic Evaluation, Heads of Departments and faculty members. The results can be concluded as follows: The appraisal systems emphasizing professional standards framework of educational institutions under OVEC conducted through system approach consists of: (1) The context factors include the clarification of quality, roles, and responsibility of the administrative committee, the standard professional evaluation committee, the provincial testing subcommittee, the subcommittee for standard professional evaluation system and document preparation, the qualification check on the appraises, and the preparation of the evaluation tools, processes, and places. (2) The processes started from the meeting to clarify the evaluation steps, checking for the completion of the result, and the comparision between the findings and the set criteria. (3) The products are the conclusion and report part presented to the administrative committee. The developed system must reach high appropriateness according to the hypothesis. The evaluation of the training program and the validation of the standard professional evaluation tools were carried out based on CIPP Model showing that the specialists evaluated the context of the training program at very high level and the input evaluation also showed high congruence at every aspect. The process evaluation revealed that based on the training program, the trainees achieved the theoretical score at 85.75/85.21 and the practical score at 80.86% which were higher than the set criteria of both theory and practice. The product evaluation assessed by the management team showed that the target group achieved high knowledge level and could apply it appropriately in conducting evaluation form for standard professional evaluation system. The results of the efficiency evaluation were highly appropriate reaching the research hypothesis.