The Academic Administration in Pakse Teacher Training College, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Abstract

The main purposes of this study were to 1) examine the academic administration of Pakse Teacher Training college, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2) compare the levels of the opinions towards the academic administration of Pakse Teacher Training College, Lao People’s Democratic Republic classified by genders and education levels, and 3) investigate problems and guidelines for developing the academic administration based on the opinions of the administrators and the lecturers of Pakse Teacher Training College. This research was a survey research. The samples were 118 participants randomized by purposive samplings technique from the administrators and the lecturers working in Pakse Teacher Training College. The research instrument used to collect data was a questionnaire with the reliability at .94. The statistics used to analyze data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and content analysis.

            The research findings were as follows.

1. The overall of the conditions of the academic administration of Pakse Teacher Training College, Lao People’s Democratic Republic was at a high level in all aspects.


2. In the comparison of the conditions of the academic administration of Pakse Teacher Training College, Lao People’s Democratic Republic classified by genders and education levels, the overall and each aspect were not different.


3. The problems and the guidelines for developing the academic administration based on the opinions of the administrators and the lecturers were investigated in 5 aspects. 1) In the curriculum and the use of the curriculum, the problems were found that the curriculum analysis was not done to find out whether the curriculum were suitable to be used in the classrooms and there were no textbooks used in the curriculum. The guidelines for developing the curriculum suggested that the curriculum analysis should be done to find out the appropriateness of the curriculum to be used in the classrooms, and the curriculum should be evaluated before being used. 2) In the teaching and learning management, the problems were found that teaching and learning sometime did not organized systematically and the laboratory rooms and electronic devices were insufficient. The development guidelines suggested that the teaching and learning should be organized in various ways, and the electronic devices should be provided sufficiently. 3) In the teaching and learning media, the problems were found that the teaching and learning media were not up-to-date and insufficient, and the lecturers should be provided enough budgets to create teaching and learning media. 4) In the measurement and evaluation, the problems were found that the lecturers were not trained on measurement and evaluation, and the evaluation was not done based on the evaluation principles. The development guidelines suggested that the experts should be invited to be committees to check the measurement and evaluation methods. 5) In the internal supervision, the problems were found that the internal supervision was not done a lot. The development guidelines suggested that the internal supervision should be done in each semester of each department continually, and the results of the internal supervision should be analyzed and used to improve teaching and learning.