A study of current conditions and requirements of Education Management of the Technical courses in bachelor of science in Technical Education Program in Mechatronics Engineering curriculum of the Faculty of Technical Education, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the opinions of the students in the compulsory technical courses in Bachelor of Science in Technical Education Program in Mechatronics Engineering Curriculum of the Faculty of Technical Education, King Mongkuts Institute of Technology North Bangkok on self-perception toward each cause of the student, the appropriation of contents identified in the course description, the problems of the students, instructors, teaching, learning equipments, materials, instruction medias, textbooks, classroom facilities, measurement and evaluation, and learning contents.Instructors opinions on curriculum objectives, the appropriation of contents identified in the course description, the problems of teaching in the courses, and the requirements of the supports in order to rise the potential of the instructors in teaching the courses. The population of this study was 16 instructors
and 99 of the 1 to 4 year students who enrolled in the academic year 2006. Two sets of questionnaire, one
for the instructors and the other for the students were use to collect the data. The data were collected by
researcher self. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation were used to analyze the
data. Content analysis was made to the open-ended question.
By the opinions of the instructors, it was found that all of the curriculum objectives were appropriate. By the opinions of the students the course descriptions of 26 compulsory subjects were appropriate at medium level. But the instructor viewed that there were 16 subjects may be review. By the opinions of the instructors about the learning and teacher problems, it was found that the problems of basic knowledge of the students, the up-to-date of equipments, materials, instruction medias, an amount of 30 students per section were rated at a medium level. The amount of textbooks, journals and print material in the library were rated at a low level. About the appropriate of the subjects credit, there were 2 subjects may be increase the credit, 11 subjects may be review the study hour, and 2 subjects may be divided into 2 subjects. The instructors viewed that all subjects promote the students benefits for their careers and their further education, and all subjects can be promote for self study.
By the opinions of the students, it was found that the problems of basic knowledge and the interest of the students were rated at a medium level. About the problems of the teacher such as the intention, on time, the available for students to consult with teacher, answering to the students question, and opportunity to share opinion and ask questions during classes were rate at a low to medium level. The problem of instruction media, classroom, the problem of sufficiency of research resource, equipments, budgets for special projects, evaluation, were rate at a medium level. The problems of up - to - date and consistency of the subject matter, the available to use the knowledge in career, and expanding the knowledge, were rate at a medium level. In the case of the sufficiency of the instructors, all the instructors have the sufficient degree and the student rate that the entire instructors were sufficient. As the question of the need of the instructor in training, the answers were they want to have a training and site visit in the industries that relate their
teaching subject. The instructor also needs the department to adjust the classroom, equipments and
instruction media.