Teachers' Competency Affecting the Critical Thinking of the Teachers in secondary schools Under the Office of the Basic Education Commission

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the level of critical thinking of assistant teachers in secondary schools under the Office of Secondary Education Area 2) to study the competencies of assistant teachers in secondary schools Under the Office of Secondary Education Area and 3) to study the competencies of assistant teachers affecting critical thinking of assistant teachers in secondary schools under the Office of Secondary Education Area. The sample group was teachers in secondary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The samples were 80 school directors of the Opportunity Expansion Schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buriram, Surin, Sisaket and Yasothon provinces as a sampling flame.The samples were selected by using the probability proportional to the size of students in each school. The data were collected by using, the teacher competency level questionnaire can be divided into 3 parts, namely Part 1 : Concering about the level of competency, conduct, discipline, morality, ethics and professional ethics, Part 2 : Concering the teachers' core competency level. Part 3 : Inquire about the level of performance of teachers and test of critical thinking for assistant teachers. The statistical methods used to the analyze the data were mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation and path analysis. The findings revealed that : 1) The assistant teachers in the secondary schools have the critical thinking at a moderate level. This characteristic of the teachers in each school is very different. 2) The competency level of assistant teachers in the secondary schools is high to very high, This characteristic of the teachers in each school vary slightly. 3) The competencie of the assistant teachers affecting directory the critical thinking level are the personal development. These variables explain the variance of the critical thinking level of the assistant teachers at 9.30% with statistical significance at = .05