Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to develop the assessment standards, indicators, and criteria for short courses for medical officers of the Royal Thai Navy and 2) to develop and evaluate the quality of the manual of assessment standards, indicators, criteria and the method for short courses evaluation for medical officers of the Royal Thai Navy. The participatory action research was employed in this research in order to take the stakeholders’ participation including 1) forty-nine person to participate focus group discussion. 2) seventeen person to participate brainstroming. 3) three hundred and ninety-one person to evaluate the appropriateness of core indicators, specific indicators and criterias, and nine person to try out the manual of assessment standards, indicators, criteria and the method for short courses evaluation for medical officers of the Royal Thai Navy. The data were collected by qualitative and quantitative approaches by using record form for focus group, record form for brainstroming, questionaire, evaluation forms and interview schedule. The quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, inter-quatile rank, whereas qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. The major findings were as follow:
The components for evaluation of short courses for medical of the Royal Thai Navy were consisted of 3 main factors, i.e., input, process and output and 62 core indicators, 53 specific indicators. They were also consisted of 2 types of evaluation criteria, i.e., indicators criteria and qualitative criteria. The manual of assessment standards, indicators, criteria and the method for short courses evaluation for medical officers of the Royal Thai Navy were consisted of 6 chapters, i.e., 1) Introduction 2) Related contents 3) Evaluation process 4) Evaluation standards 5) Description of evaluation standards, core indicators, specific indicators, and Appendix. The users viewed that the developed manual were satisfied in terms of utility, feasibility and accuracy in the high to very high level. They also viewed that the developed manual were satisfied in term of propriety in the very high level. The users consistently viewed that the manual be accepted by related people.