The Study of Classroom Research Problem Conditions of the Teacher-Professional Training Students in Teaching, Buriram Rajabhat University

Abstract

The study in the classroom research problem conditions of the teacher-professional training students, Buriram Rajabhat University aimed at studying the problem conditions and guidelines in the classroom research process development of the teacher-professional training students, Buriram Rajabhat University. The samples included 12 mentoring teachers selected by the purposive sampling, and 399 teacher students training teaching in schools, Semester 2, Academic Year 2019, selected by the stratifies random sampling. The research instruments containing the interview forms and the questionnaires with 15 items in the classroom research problem conditions of the teacher-professional training students. The statistics used for analyzing the data covered the percentage, mean and standard deviation.

            The research findings found that the classroom research problem conditions of the teacher-professional training students from the interview with mentoring teachers could be concluded that the students still lacked of knowledge, understanding and skills in conducting the classroom research, lacked of documents, textbooks and study resources in conducting the classroom research, and the expertise consultants in supervising and giving advice; they still had the problems in classroom research topic determination because selecting the research topics of classroom research did not derive from the actual problems occurring in the classrooms; and the problems in constructing and assessing the research instrument quality and the data analysis.

            From inquiring the classroom research conditions in overall of the teacher-professional training students, it revealed in the moderate level, covering different problems in calculating the data with statistics for the classroom research problems, the research methods, constructing different research instruments, assessing the research instrument quality, searching for the information concerning doing research, and the problems in designing the research methods. For the guidelines in developing the teacher-professional training students concerning doing the classroom research, it indicated the development guidelines that in terms of research process, there should have been the plan for doing the classroom research in Semester 1 of teaching training, because could be the readiness preparation and had enough time to understand in the research process. The students should have been enthusiastic in researching for the information in doing research and dared to request some advice from the expertise consultants in doing research.