The Needs Assessment for the Development of Research Competence for Undergraduate Students

          This research was to study the needs assessment for the development of research competence for undergraduate students in education programs, to prioritize such needs, and to study of the method for improving students’ research competence. There were 2 population groups, namely, 402 5th year students of the education program at Srinakharinwirot University from the academic year 2015. They were picked by stratified random sampling. The other group was 10 teachers who teach the educational research for Learning and teaching development subject. Two sets of tool were used for this research, namely, questionnaires and interviewing by focus group discussions. The questionnaire was on the needs assessment for the development of research competence for undergraduate students in education programs, which was a dual-response format rating scale with the reliability (-Coefficient) of 0.972. The latter was a focus group interviewing about the need, the necessity, and the guidelines to improve research competence. The results showed that student’s competence that needs most improvment was their competency to present their research results to the public. The most suitable learning theory for the learning management of the educational research for the learning and teaching development subject that would also improve the students’ research competence was Constructivism Theory. The learning styles of this theory that were most suitable for real application were research-based learning and problem-based learning. For these styles of learning to work, the underlying learning activity must be the one that matches the students’ interest and possesses some variety in it. For the evaluation of the student, it should focus on formative assessment that provides feedback for learning management.

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