A Study of Creative Problem-Solving Skills with Preventing Violence in School for Advisory Teachers

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the creative problem-solving skills with preventing violence in school for advisory teachers at Secondary Educational Service Area Office in the Central Region under the Ministry of Education. The sample was 613 advisory teachers of Secondary Educational Service Area Office in the Central Region under the Ministry of Education, selected by multistage random sampling. The research instruments were the creative problem-solving skill test with preventing violence in school for advisory teachers. The statistics used in this research were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The result showed that 1) The creative problem-solving skill test with preventing violence in school for advisory teachers consisted of 25 questions which the index of item-objective congruence (IOC) was between 0.60 to 1.00. The discrimination index was between 0.20 to 0.74, and the reliability was 0.87; and 2) The results of using the creative problem-solving skill test in preventing school violence for advisory teachers showed that the creative problem-solving skills in preventing school violence of the whole and each item of advisory teachers under Secondary Educational Service Area Office in Nakhon Pathom, Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi-Trat, and Sa Kaeo were at a good level.