Approaches for Academic Management Development of Secondary School Consortium of Ratchaburi Area 4 Based on the Concept of Design Thinker

Abstract

          This study was a descriptive research. The research purposes were: 1) to study the priority needs in the academic management of Secondary School Consortium of Ratchaburi Area 4 based on the concept of Design Thinker; and 2) to propose approaches for the Secondary Schools Consortium of Ratchaburi Area 4 based on
the concept of Design Thinker. The total number of sampled respondents was 503, involving 5 school directors, 36 heads of departments, 92 teachers and 370 students. The research instrument was a set of five-level rating scaled questionnaire for needs assessment, and an evaluation form for the rating of suitability and the feasibility of the proposing approaches. The data were analyzed by frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Modified Priority Needs Index: PNI_modified and content analysis.

          The findings revealed that: 1) the priority needs index pointed firstly to the development and promotion of learning resources, followed by the students’ learning assessment and evaluation, the curriculum development, and the instructional management; 2)there were four main approaches and six sub-approaches for the academic management development, (1) to improve and support the establishment of learning resources that enable the students to focus on prototype-building and action-oriented behaviors, (2) to improve the learning assessment and evaluation by focusing on creativity, (3) to develop the curriculum by focusing on cultivating human-centeredness among students, and (4) to improve instructional management that cultivates the quality of human-centeredness in students.