THE STUDY OF LEARNING STANDARD PATTERNS OF THE OCCUPATION DISCIPLINE TOWARDS WORLD CLASS STANDARDS การศึกษาแบบแผนการกำหนดมาตรฐานการเรียนรู้กลุ่มสาระการงานอาชีพสู่มาตรฐานสากล

Abstract

The development of students to reach national learning standards, it needs to have guidelines which are important tools for educational management to achieve the learning standards. The purposes of the recent study were to study the learning standard patterns from foreign countries and the management approach of the occupation discipline that should be suitable for Thai education system. The procedure of the study started with studying and analyzing the learning standard patterns from foreign countries. Then, a focus group meeting was conducted by experts who have mastered the standards of learning and those who have professional content in the field of vocational education. The learning standard patterns of the occupation discipline were from The United States of America, Canada, The United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Fifteen experts in the field also participated in the study. The results of the study indicated that the learning standard patterns were in the form of interval benchmarks. Each learning standard indicated the content standards, including career cluster and working skills. Setting learning standards and benchmark under each strand. The learning standard patterns were not be the same ones. The different patterns are based on the career cluster and interval benchmark or grade-level expectation. Having the guidelines for curriculum alignment to standards and benchmark. Most of the experts strongly agreed that the learning standard patterns and the management approach of the occupation discipline were suitable for Thai education system.