A MODEL OF ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION FOR BLENDED-LEARNING MANAGEMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC SITUATION รูปแบบการบริหารวิชาการเพื่อการจัดการเรียนการรู้แบบผสมผสาน ในสถานการณ์การแพร่ระบาดโรคโควิด-19

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic situation has a crucial impact on school. As such, schools need a proper academic administration model. The research purposes were 1) to survey students’, parents’, and teachers’ preparedness for blended-learning, 2) to create a model of an academic administration for blended-learning management during COVID-19 pandemic situation and to examine the implementation of the developed model on teacher’s learning management and students’ learning. A mixed method research design was employed. The research context was set in one high school under one university administrative structure, equipped with current technology computers with internet connection. Data collection was conducted by surveying teachers’, students’, and parents’ preparedness for blended- learning and then incorporated the obtained data into the expert interview data to synthesize and create a model of academic administration. After that, the developed model was evaluated by five assigned experts and then improved, respectively. Then, the developed model was implemented, simultaneously the data were collected, in the school during first and second semesters of 2020 academic year and first semester of 2021 academic year. For data analysis, content analysis technique was used for qualitative data while basic statistics of mean, SD, and percentage were used for quantitative ones. As a result, it was found that 1) students’, parents’ and teachers’ preparedness was at high level, 2) the developed model of academic administration for blended-learning management consisted of its principle and key aspects and two key components: nine academic areas and five steps of academic management process, accordingly the developed model was considered at high level be the experts, in over all, and in consistency with the practical data , 3) the developed model was practical in school setting and has positive impacts on teachers’ learning management and students’ learning. Even though, there were some problems and obstacles.