The Development of Online Training Curriculum base on Micro Learning and Online Social Network for Teacher in 21st Century in Test Construction Topic

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop the online training curriculum based on Micro Learning and Online Social Network for 21st century teachers on test creation, and 2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the online training curriculum based on Micro Learning and Online Social Network for 21st century teachers on test creation.             The methodology was divided into 2 steps:Step 1was the development of the online training curriculum based on Micro Learning and Online Social Network for 21st century teachers on test creation by studying the problems and demands in examination creating including the demand on online training for Bangkok schools’ teachers and executives using questionnaires. After that the information data gained from step 1 was used to design and develop the training curriculum then quality checked by the expert. The result found that the developed online training curriculum was in the highest suitability level. Step 2 was the effectiveness evaluation of the online training curriculum based on Micro Learning and Online Social Network for 21st century teachers on test creation by using the developed training curriculum with 30 Bangkok teachers from simple random sampling from the respondents in step 1 and willing to participate in online training on test creation.

The result found that 1) the evaluation on the teachers’ test creation ability compared to the ability before and after joining the training from development scores of each trained teacher – 2 teachers (6.67%) performed very high development, 21 teachers (70.00%) performed high development and 7 teachers (23.33%) performed moderate development and 2) the quality evaluation in accordance with the assessment standards of The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation which was evaluated by 30 participating teachers and executives of the 30 teachers were in good level for 4 standards. The standard with the highest mean was propriety standards (  ̅̅ = 4.78). The next one was feasibility standards (  ̅= 4.74), Utility standards (  ̅= 4.71) and accuracy standards (  ̅= 4.64), respectively.