The objectives of this research were 1) to study the current and desirable states of school management for developing characteristics of Thai children in the ASEAN community. 2) to analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of school management for developing characteristics of Thai children in the ASEAN community and 3) to develop school management strategies for developing characteristics of Thai children in the ASEAN community. The study was mixed-method research. The samples were 183 state-maintained kindergartens. The ...

Increasing pressure on Thai private universities to retain their students in the wake of decreasing student enrollment, demographic changes, and direct competition from public universities calls for them to address more systematically plans and action for student retention. The purpose of this study was to determine risk factors that affect student retention at an international university in Thailand. First year undergraduate students (N=2,193) were surveyed for factors related to student attrition. The survey was conducted both online and ...

The study was conducted to identify teachers‘ followership styles at Soochow University; to identify the most important followership skills and characteristics; as well as the important followership skills that the university lacks in its training program as the teachers perceived at Soochow University, and to provide some key training themes and suggestions that will help develop teachers‘ followership skills at Soochow University. The examined population was comprised of 133 randomly selected instructors from seven different departments of ...

Factors affecting student retention were examined in the context of international programs at Thai private higher education institutions for the development of a leadership strategy to affect retention. A mixed-methods study involving both quantitative and qualitative aspects was employed to determine factors affecting student retention and current practices utilized. Students, faculty and administrators of international programs were surveyed and interviewed to obtain data for this study. Results indicated that retention of students in international ...

This study examines the availability and usability of Information and communication technology among the two technical high school teachers in the Escola Tecnica Profissional Becora, Dili and the Escola Tecnica Profissional Dom Bosco Fatumaca Baucau, Dili, Timor-Leste. The Research Design employed is the quantitative, descriptive and comparative survey design. Four research questions were formulated for the study. The population for the study consisted of 90 technical high school teachers. Questionnaire was used as the instrument for gathering ...

This study was aim to investigate the level of Job Stress and Job Satisfaction amongst Chinese volunteer teachers and to explore the relationship between the two and whether the teachers Job Stress effected their satisfaction with the job. The questionnaire survey method was used in this study. The target population for this study was the volunteer Chinese teachers who were working in Thailand from 2013-2014. There were 1,200 volunteers during this period; therefore, this number represented the population and use 291 teachers as the sample of ...

This study aimed to compare the Kindergarten 2 students’ achievement in English Phonics before and after the use of English Phonics online games and to find out their perceptions towards such games. Eleven Kindergarten 2 students of St. Mark’s International School in the academic year 2015-2016 participated in the two-month study. This research used a mixed method design. A one-group pretest-posttest experiment was conducted to determine if there was a significant difference in the students’ English Phonics achievement before and after using ...

The purpose of this study was to study of parents' expectation and satisfaction towards school management in Nopparatpattanasas School, Bangkok, Thailand. The results showed that the level of parents' expectation and satisfaction towards school management were "Agree". The finding of the hypotheses research found that, there was a significant difference between parents' expectation and satisfaction of school management, and four dimensions, and there was a significant difference between kindergarten level parents' expectation and satisfaction ...