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Educational Quality Development towards Science School A Case Study of Princess Chulabhorn’s College,Trang
Mrs. Suwanee Oungvarakorn
Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus
suwanee05hotmail.com
Abstract
The objectives of this research are: 1 Study the context of Princess Chulabhorn’s
College, Trang.2Study the educational quality development
of Princess Chulabhorn’s College,Trang. 3 Propose guidelines for
educational quality development towards Science School. The sample is 31 people selected by
purposive sampling and consists of 3 executives, 16 teachers, 6 students and 6 parents. The instruments
used were an in-depth interview to collect data from executives and teachers and the story telling
method to collect data from students and parents. The data were analysed by using qualitative data
analysis. The research findings were as follows:
The context of Princess Chulabhorn’s College,Trang is operating and managing education
for students who are especially talented in mathematics and science for both lower and upper
secondary levels of a boarding school. The aim is to disperse opportunities to talented students who
live in different regions of Thailand and also to give opportunities to students who have no chances
and are poor in order to develop those talented students in mathematics and science to be
researchers and inventors in the fields of mathematics, science and technology at a
world-class standard. The educational quality development of Princess Chulabhorn’s College,
Trang consists of 1 Input factors which are the characteristics of students, teachers, executives and
other resources. 2 Processes including the processes of students, teachers, executives and
administration, teachers and executives development and students admission. 3 The
outputoutcome consists of learning achievement and the expected characteristics of students of a
Science School. Finally, the guideline of educational quality development towards a Science
School is operating and managing education aimed at developing excellence in mathematics and
science according to the standards of a Science School which consist of 1 students, 2 teachers and
teachers’ teaching activities, 3 executives and their administration, 4 the curriculum, 5 information
technology for education, 6 the school dormitory and building, 7 the science laboratory and 8 the
library.
Keyword: Educational quality development, Science School
Introduction
The process of educational quality
development can be operated and managed in various methods. One method is to study the
outcomes of a successful school, which has best practices for each area. Best practices are work
methods or procedures that result in quality work or successful work. Schools use best practices to
develop their work in order to search for data or knowledge to progress their work to achieve the
highest success. Beliefs, knowledge, principles or guidelines of good management are not only found
in documents or textbooks, but are also found in successful individuals or organisations Choosak
Aikpetch, 2012. The project to develop Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang to be a Science
School requires the directors to specify Science School standards, and to set up administration and
teaching management aimed to develop mathematics and science excellence for high school
level. It is found that the students of Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang have shown high
learning achievement according to O-Net results from 2005-2012. This learning achievement places
Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang as one of the top ten schools, ranked by O-Net results, in
Thailand. Furthermore, the three assessment results
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organised by the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment Public
Organisation ONESQA are also at an excellent level across all standards. Most of the schools in
Thailand do not meet these assessment requirements, especially in terms of students, which
is standard number 3: reading, thinking and analysing. Finally, the College meets all the
requirements as their assessment results of the Programme for International Student Assessment
PISA show. PISA is an educational assessment project, which measures educational organisations
against benchmarks for reading literacy, mathematical literacy and science literacy for
students of 15 years of age who reside within the member countries of the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development OECD. PISA operates every 3 years and assessments took
place in 2003, 2006 and 2009. The results showed that Thailand recorded a lower points average in
three areas than the points average recorded for other member countries of the OECD. Thailand has
scored a lower points average in all three rounds of the assessment by PISA The Institute for the
Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology, 2010. The National Institute of Educational
Testing Service Public Organisation organised the Ordinary National Educational Test O-NET for
Mattayomsuksa 3 level students Grade 9 and Mattayomsuksa 6 level students Grade 12 for the
subjects of Thai, Social Studies, Religion and Culture, English, Mathematics, Science, Health and
Physical Education, Art, Occupation and Technology and found that the scientific
educational management of Thailand has not been successful. This outcome is in accordance with the
external quality assessment result for basic education organised by the Office for National
Education Standards and Quality Assessment Public Organisation. The first assessment was
organised from 2001-2005 and the second one from 2006-2010. The assessment results indicated that
the students’ thinking ability, analysis ability, synthetic thinking ability, judgement ability,
creative thinking, consideration and vision are at low level Office for National Education Standards
and Quality Assessment, 2011. Hence, the purpose of this research is to study educational quality
development towards Science School using a case study: Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang,
which has achieved educational assessment results at excellent levels consistently, in order to provide
guidelines to develop educational quality in the future.
Objectives
1. To study the context of Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang
2. To study the educational quality development of Princess Chulabhorn’s College,
Trang 3. To propose guidelines for educational
quality development towards Science School
Methodologies
The study is divided into three sessions. 1. Study the context of Princess
Chulabhorn’s College, Trang. 2 . Study the educational quality
development of Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang. By Lesson Learned
2.1 In-depth interview to collect data from executives and teachers.
2.2 Story telling to collect data from students and parents.
3 . Propose guidelines for educational quality development towards Science School.
Sample
The sample is personnel and people related to Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang from
1996-2012: directors, vice-directors, teachers, students and parents. The sample, a total of 31
people, was selected by purposive sampling: 3 directors and vice-directors, 16 teachers, 6 students,
6 parents.
Research Tools
The research tools are comprised the following.
1. The researcher studied the context of Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang by using
document analysis for both quantitative data and qualitative data.
2. The researcher studied educational quality development of Princess Chulabhorn’s
College, Trang by Semi-structured interview and story telling .
3. Materials for a group discussion to find out guidelines for educational quality development
towards Science School.
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Data analysis Data analysis consists of three areas
1. To analyze documents. 2. To analyze Semi-structured interview and
story telling . 3. To synthesize the data a group discussion.
Findings 1. The context of Princess Chulabhorn’s
College, Trang: Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang operates and manages education for students,
in both the lower and upper secondary levels, who have talents for mathematics and science in the
form of a boarding school. The College aims to disperse opportunities to talented students who live
in different regions of Thailand and also to provide opportunities to students who have no chances and
are poor in order to become a world-class Science School.
2. Educational Quality Development of Princess Chulabhorn’s College, Trang: According
