HomeIAMURE International Journal of Educationvol. 2 no. 1 (2012)

Development of the Curriculum Implementation Model of Basic Education for the Secondary School

Kaokrat Kongthai

 

Abstract:

The academic administration for secondary schools according to the basic education core curriculum A.D.2008 faced the important problem that teachers lacked of the understanding to use the curriculum so that they cannot achieve the goal designed by the curriculum. This study aimed to improve the curriculum implementation model for the secondary schools in the Office of the Basic Education Commission area 41 by creating the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) method, Multi-Attribute Consensus Reaching (MACR) method and assessed the result by using Balanced Scorecard (BSC) method. The result was considered in two perspectives; the students’ perspective considered the character education, the achievement and, reading, thinking, analyzing, and writing skills. Another one was the teachers’ perspective considered the practice of teachers’ commitment by testing the curriculum implementation model in Klongklungratrangsan School, Kamphaeng Phet province in semester 2, 2011. The samples were 310 students and 55 teachers. The result found that the model has 4 main parts; the principle, goal, procedure, and assessment. For applying the new model in this school it was found that character education, achievement, reading, thinking, analyzing, and writing skills of students and the practice of teacher’s commitment were better than using the old model.