Lecturer receptivity to a major planned educational change at Rajabhat universities in Thailand
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Education
RAS ID
4515
Abstract
Thailand passed the National Education Act (1999) which introduced the largest educational change there in over 50 years. This study investigated lecturer receptivity to that change at four Rajabhat Universities in the second year of the implementation stage during 2002. Lecturer receptivity was conceptualised as relating to nine aspects of the change. Data were collected by questionnaire (N=659) with 50 stem-items answered in three perspectives. These were (1) how I expect the change to be planned, (2) how I think the change was really implemented, and (3) what my actual behaviour was. Data were analysed with a Rasch measurement model. Eight of the nine aspects and 18 of the 50 stem-items fitted the measurement model. A good linear scale of receptivity was created where the proportion of observed variance considered true was 95% and data were considered to be valid and reliable. The easiest aspect was comparison with the previous system and the hardest was participation in decision-making. For most items, the perspectives were found to be ordered from easy (perspective 1) to hard (perspective 3) as conceptualised
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Comments
Ketusiri, A., & Waugh, R. F. (2006). Lecturer receptivity to a major planned educational change at Rajabhat Universities in Thailand. Proceedings of EDU-COM International Conference. (pp. 274-286). Nong Khai, Thailand. Edith Cowan University. Available here