Information System Development for Field Experience Practice Management of Sciences Students at Yala Rajabhat University.

Abstract

This study aims to; 1) develop the information system for field experience practice of science students at Yala Rajabhat University and 2) study the use of the developed information system. The research methodology was divided into 3 steps; step 1 was to study the performance, problem and the need in management of sciences students in field experience practice, step 2 was to develop the information system for field experience practice and step 3 was to study the use of the developed information system. The samples used were 194 people who are 134 students from the faculty of Science Technology and Agriculture, who registered this course “field experience practice” in the second semester of academic year 2016, that were selected using stratified random sampling, 30 supervisors and 30 mentors for evaluators from the workplace. The research tool was the open ended questionnaire, the Black Box Testing form for evaluating the efficiency of information system and satisfaction questionnaire. The data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation and descriptive report was employed.

The findings indicated that; 1) the problems of field experience practice management were the selection of the workplace for the field experience practice, the problems of how to coordinate with the relevant persons, the problems of problems of supervisor and  the need of information system as the tool for field experience practice management.; 2) the information system was on the university website at URL: https://eduservice.yru.ac.th/experience/ and its efficiency was at a high level with mean at 4.26 that means the developed information system can be used efficiently and 3) it was found that the supervisors, the mentors at the workplace and the students were satisfied in using the developed information system at a high level with mean at 4.24, 4.16 and 4.13 respectively.