KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING THE INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS AT ROMKLAO SCHOOL, NONGBUALUMPHU PROVINCE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) To study knowledge management process of internal quality assurance at Romkao school Nongbualumphu province; and 2) To develop the internal quality assurance of the school. The sample was purposively selected consisting 21 persons including the school administrator, teachers, and educational personnel related to internal quality assurance. The tools of this research were interview formats and items recording formats.  The results of the research were as follows. 1) Results of the study on knowledge management process for internal quality assurance in the school showed that there were 7 steps of the knowledge management process including: 1) Knowledge Identification; 2) Knowledge Creation; 3) Knowledge Acquisition; 4) Knowledge Organization; 5) Codification and Refinement; 6) Knowledge Access; and 7) Knowledge Sharing and Exchange. 2) The result of developing the internal quality assurance at Romkao school, Nongbualumphu province showed that there were 26 projects in total including: 1) Reading promotion project; 2) Writing skill development project; 3) Quick math thinking skills training project by using GSP and A-Math programs; 4) Learning achievement improvement project (O-Net); 5) English bilingual program (EP); 6) Buddhist school project; 7) Scholarship project; 8) School bank project; 9) Sufficiency economy project in accordance with the royal initiative; 10) School democracy promotion project; 11) Academic excellence promotion project; 12) Internal supervision project; 13) School teaching and learning assessment and evaluation project; 14) Document system development project; 15) Personnel efficiency enhancement project; 16) Educational institution and community relations project; 17) School building and landscape development project; 18) Project of capacity development of teachers and students in group of schools; 19) Project of increasing teaching and learning management potential; 20) Academic camp project; 21) School curriculum improvement project in accordance with the core curriculum of basic education; 22) Academic excellence promotion project; 23) Project of reducing studying time and increasing knowing time; 24) Internal supervision project; 25) The project of sufficiency economy in accordance with the royal initiative; and 26) DLIT Information system development and administration project.