DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER – BASED SCIENCE CURRICULUM FOR LOWER SECONDARY LEVEL OF NONG KHAO SCHOOL PHICHIT PROVINCE การพัฒนาหลักสูตรวิทยาศาสตร์เพื่ออาชีพระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น โรงเรียนบ้านหนองขาว จังหวัดพิจิตร

Abstract

Learning of career-based science will enhance students to illustrate how they can apply science to their career or higher education. This research aimed to develop and evaluate a career-based science curriculum for the lower secondary level of Baan Nong Khao School, Phitchit Province. It was participatory research with the collaboration of the curriculum development committee appointed by the school principal. The committee collaboratively designed the curriculum structure and developed the courses, course descriptions, and learning resources. Twenty-seven experts in Science Teaching, Vocational Education, and Curriculum and Instruction evaluated the developed curriculum. The results showed that the development of the curriculum was based on the four elements as follows: 1) the careers involved in the design of the career-based curriculum are industry, agriculture, food technology, agricultural work, industrial machinery, agricultural technology, and electrical engineering, 2) the curriculum structure is a three-year curriculum in the two-semester system with 100 hours or 2.5 credits per semester, 3) the six career-based science subjects included Science and Agricultural Industry, Science and Food Technology, Science and Agricultural Work, Science and Industrial Machinery, Science and Agricultural Technology, and Science and Electrical Engineering, and 4) Learning resources include learning websites, virtual laboratory documents, and YouTube channels. Moreover, according to the evaluation of the designed curriculum, the experts concurred that the designed curriculum is appropriate at a high and an extremely high level.