The Guidance Administration at the Basic Educational Institutes under KhonKaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 4

Abstract

This research aims 1) to study the condition of the guidance administration at the basic educational institutes under KhonKaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 4; and 2) to study the guideline for the guidance administration at the basic educational institutes under KhonKaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 4. The sampling group includes 124 educational institute administrators and 124 guidance teachers in total of 248 persons. The research tools is five-rating scale questionnaire with the open ended questions. The questionnaire have index of item objective congruence (IOC) at 0.67-1.00 and the reliability [s equal to 0.91. The data analysis used percentage, mean, standard deviation, and content analysis.

The results are as follows: In general the condition of the guidance administration at the basic educational institutes under KhonKaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 4 for five aspects is at a high level. The highest average is the individual inventory services, followed by the follow-up evaluation service, the counseling service, the placement service, and the information service respectively. As for the guideline for the guidance administration at the basic educational institutes under KhonKaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 4 shows as the following ; 1) the institutes should record a student personal data in the cumulative record; 2) the institutes should arrange the home visit of students in every academic year; 3) the institutes should analyze the student data individually 4) the institutes should create the follow-up and evaluation tools to get the guidance administration result in all aspects; 5) the institutes should arrange a student record of each year of graduation; 6) the institutes should supervise and follow-up the guidance activity continuously; 7) the institutes should have the meeting to clarify the policy of the counseling service systematically; 8) the institutes should counsel students as individual and group; 9) the institutes should follow-up students who received the counseling service systematically; 10) the institutes should survey the participation of students in the extra-curricular activities based on the students’ aptitude and interests; 11) the institutes should coordinate with the academic department to help students choosing an educational plan based on their ability and aptitude; 12) the institutes should encourage personnel to gain more knowledge related to guidance; 13 ) the institutes should continue to gather information about education, occupation and personality systematically; 14) the institutes should exhibit knowledge related to guidance in various ways; and 15) the institutes should survey the satisfaction of students and parents towards the guidance service.