The adoption levels of the educational innovations among the supervisors at the Amphoe level and the academic teachers in elementary school clusters in educational region eight
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Purposes The purposes of this research were: 1. To study the adoption levels of the educational innovations among the supervisors at the Amphoe level and the academic teachers in elementary school clusters in educational region eight. 2. To compare the adoption of the educational innovations among the 3 cluster sizes: large, middle and small, in the educational region eight. 3. To study the coherence between the levels of adoption and the following variables; local languages, religions, education attainment, teaching experiences and economic status of the supervisors at the Amphoe level and the academic teachers in elementary school clusters in educational region eight. Procedures The instrument used in this study was the questionnaire constructed by the researcher. It was based on Rogers and Shcemakers adoption process which consisted of five stages: awareness stage, interest stage, evaluation stage, trial stage and adoption stage. There were 37 items in five areas of innovations : curriculum, instruction, educational media, measurement and administration. The samples were 60 supervisors at the Amphoe level and 183 academic teachers in elementary school clusters. The data were analysed of using ANOVA and Scheffe Test for all possible comparison. The data were tabulated alongside with the descriptive presentation and interpretation. Results 1. The supervisors at the Amphoe level and the academic teachers in elementary school clusters adopted in five areas of innovations : in instruction and measurement at the trial stage, in educational media at the evaluation stage. The academic teachers in elementary school clusters adopted in curriculum at the trial stage. This stage was higher than the evaluation stage which was the adoption level of the supervisors at the Amphoe. 2. For the adoption level of the 37 items of innovations; the supervisors at the Amphoe level and the academic teachers in elementary school clusters adopted innovations at the same or higher levels at adoption stage in remedial and formative evaluation. The supervisors at the Amphoe level adopted innovations at the adoption stage whereas the academic teachers were at the trial stage in school broadcast, criterion referenced measurement, pre-test, summative evaluation, branching school system and student council For the 37 educational innovations within 5 items of innovations, the supervisors levels of adoption were at the same or higher levels than those of the academic teachers except the use of bicycle for compulsory education in which the supervisors was at the interesting stage whereas the academic teachers was at the trial stage. 3. The comparative results of the adoption level of innovations among the academic teachers in school clusters within the large, medium and small grouped schools in the educational region eight revealed that there was a significant difference at the level of .05 in the adoption levels of innovation between the large and medium school clusters in measurement and evaluation and automatic promotion; between the medium and small school clusters, and between large and small school clusters in learning packages: between medium and small school clusters in the debate for moral value: between large and small school clusters in student council. 4.The supervisors who had I I0 years or more of working experiences shared the same level of innovation adoption of the adoption stage, in remedial teaching, school broadeast, Pre-test, formative evaluation, summative evaluation and student council. The supervisors knew those innovations primarily by the orientation and the studying. The academic teachers with I-I0 years or more of working experiences, with the educational status lower or higher than the bachelor degree, with the monthly salary 2,000 3,500 bath or more shared the same level of innovation adoption, at the adoption stage in remedial teaching which was known primarily by the studying. 5. The other innovations which the supervisors and the academic teachers were currently using were : 5.1 Honorable teacher 5.2 Mobile library 5.3 Community school 5.4 Semi-welfare education 5.5 On-foot teacher among villages 5.6 The creative teaching method of the Thai language