The Development of an Attitude Adjustment Program towards Vocational Education for Junior High School Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to analyze and synthesize guidelines for adjusting attitudes toward vocational education for lower secondary school students, 2) to develop a program for adjusting attitudes towards vocational education for lower secondary school students, and 3) to trial of an Attitude Adjustment Program for Vocational Education for Lower Secondary School Students. This research and development contains 3 phases: 1) Analyze and synthesize the concept of creating a program. 2) Program development, and 3) Trial with an experimental group of 20 junior high school students at Chang Phueak Wittayakhom School who were obtained by Cluster or Area Random Sampling. The research tools were questionnaires, interview forms, and assessment forms. Statistics used were mean, standard deviation and T-test. Research results; 1. There are 3 ways to adjust attitudes: 1) Knowledge, 2) Feelings, and 3) Behavior; 2. The developed program consisted of 8 contents and activities. The process of learning activities consisted of 3 steps: 1) Giving Knowledge, 2) Sensation, 3) Behavioral Adjustment Quality of the program; 3. The results of the program trial showed that after the trial was higher than before. significantly at the .05 level in all aspects: 1) Knowledge, 2) feelings, 3) Behavior. The result of the satisfaction assessment of the program in overall, it was at the highest level ( = 4.67, S.D.=0.49). Keywords: attitude adjustment program, vocational education