An Assessment of Effectiveness of the Spirit of Asean Project of the Office of Basic Education

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to assessment of effectiveness of Spirit of ASEAN project of the office of basic education. Sample were schools in the office of basic education 200 schools in the lower northern region. The research instrument was the strategic readiness survey; teachers fear scale approach to ASEAN community and questionnaire of characteristics of ASEAN population. Data were analyzed using means, standard deviation and Mann – Whitney U test. The research findings were as follows:

1. Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of Spirit of ASEAN Project of the office of basic education The 8 outcome indicators consisted of: 1) Attitude of executives in entering the ASEAN community. 2) Fear of teachers in language use and teaching and learning in foreign languages. 3) English language achievement. 4) ASEAN language achievement. 5) Characteristics of students. 6) Administrators and teachers participating in the academic exchange program with the ASEAN Community Network. 7) Administrators and teachers who study in ASEAN countries. and 8) Students who study in ASEAN countries.
2. Effectiveness of Spirit of ASEAN Project of the office of basic education of schools at the center for ASEAN studies were found to be moderately effectiveness and schools that are not ASEAN centers have a low effectiveness.
3. Schools that are ASEAN centers have more effective for Spirit of ASEAN than non-ASEAN centers significant at the .05 level.