The Construction of Value Inventory for Thai Teachers

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to construct a Value Inventory for Thai teachers 2) to apply the inventory to teachers at the secondary level 3) to indentify Thai teachers’ values 4) to compare values of teachers lived in the different educational regions. There were two groups of samples : the first group were 16 experts in the field of values who ranked the items in the inventory and 9 experts who proved the inventory, and the second group were secondary teachers who worked in the urban and local schools reported to the Ministry of Education. The 500 teachers were drawn by cluster sampling technique. Tool used in this study was value inventory concerning “Responsibility”, “Honest”, “Kindness”, “Broadminded”, “Capable”, and “Independent”. The inventory consisted of 100 items of situations. Respondents were asked to rank the rating scale-test ranging from “very little”, “little”, “much”, and “very much”. The research findings were as follows : 1. Thai teachers had values ranging from “very little” to “very much” as the following a) the Instrumental Values : “Responsible” , “Broadmined” , “Honest”, “Capable”, and “Independents” : b) the Terminal Values : “Self-Esteem”, “Wisdom”, “True Friendship”, “A Sense of Accomplishment”, “Family Security”, “Helpful”, and “A World at Peace”. 2. Thai teachers from various parts of educational regions shared almost the same order of importance of values. 3. Thai teachers from various parts of educational regions contained each type of value ranging from “much” to “very much” level.