Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to survey the competency in the computer utilization as opined by the secondary school social studies teachers in the aspects of knowledge, performance skills, and attitude, 2) to study the needs to develop the competency in utilizing the computer of secondary school social studies teachers in the aspects of knowledge, performance skills, and attitude, 3) to study the ways to develop competency and expectation in utilizing the computer of secondary school social studies teachers. The sample group which was multi-stage random selected was 384 social studies teachers in secondary schools in Bangkok metropolis. The research instrument was a set of questionnaire. The data were analyzed by means of percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The results of this research were as follows: 1. social studies teachers opined that they had lowest competency in the computer utilization in the aspects of knowledge and performance skills and low competency in the attitude aspect. 2. social studies teachers higly needed to develop the competency in the computer utilization in the aspects of knowledge, performance skills and attitude. 3. social studies teachers opined that the ways to develop the competency in the computer utilization as follows : frequently practice in using computer, particpating in computer training workshop, school support for at least one set of computer in social studies division, computer specialized personnel and materis for of instructional production, The expectation in utilizing computer of social teachers were that systematic information organization in schools and students' ability in use of computers as imformation resource