Guidelines on the Development of Internal Quality Assurance Operations According to the PDCA Quality Cycle of Child Development Center under Local Administrative Organization, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Province.
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were: 1) to create guidelines on the development of internal quality assurance operations according to the PDCA quality cycle of child development center under Local Administrative Organization, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya province and 2) to evaluate the suitability and possibility of putting such guidelines into practice. The research methodology consisted of two steps. The first step was to create and examine guidelines on the development of internal quality assurance operations according to the PDCA quality cycle. Five specialists in educational administration were selected as the sample by purposive sampling. The research instrument employed in this step was a rating scale questionnaire. Item-Objective Congruence Index was used to analyze the data. The other step was to evaluate the suitability and possibility of putting such guidelines into practice. Selected by stratified random sampling, the sample consisted of 165 heads of child development center under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Local Administrative Organization. The research instrument was a rating scale questionnaire with a reliability of suitability at 0.83 and that of possibility at 0.84. The statistical tools used for data analysis were mean, standard deviation and t-test.
The results indicated that the guidelines on the development of internal quality assurance operations according to the PDCA quality cycle were composed of 5 components, each of which was classified into 4 aspects (planning, doing, checking, and action), and 65 practical items; namely, 1) management of administrative system and information of child development center, consisting of 12 practical items (P = 5 items, D = 2 items, C = 2 items, D = 3 items), 2) creation of educational quality development plan focusing on the identity of child development center, consisting of 17 practical items (P = 4 items, D = 8 items, C = 3 items, D = 2 items), 3) operations corresponding to the educational quality development plan, comprising 15 practical items (P = 4 items, D = 4 items, C = 3 items, D = 4 items), 4) evaluation of educational quality, comprising 11 practical items (P = 4 items, D = 2 items, C = 2 items, D = 3 items), 5) evaluation of educational quality, composed of 10 practical items (P = 3 items, D = 3 items, C = 2 items, D = 2 items). With respect to the suitability and possibility of putting such guidelines into practice, it was found that every practical item created had higher assessment scale of suitability and possibility than that of the specified criteria at 3.50 with a statistically significant level of .05.