THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENRICHMENT CURRICULUM FOR STUDENTS’ ETHICAL IMPROVEMENT IN PATHUMTHANI UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to: 1) develop an enrichment curriculum for students’ ethical improvement in private university; 2) examine the efficiency of the enrichment curriculum for students’ ethical improvement in private university; 3) study the feasibility of the enrichment curriculum for students’ ethical improvement in private university. The development of the enrichment curriculum consisted 4 steps, i.e. studying fundamental data, developing the enrichment curriculum, examining the efficiency of the enrichment curriculum, and studying the feasibility of the enrichment curriculum.

The development of the enrichment curriculum for students’ ethical improvement in Pathumthani University was conducted by studying fundamental data from documents, related research, as well as conducting in-depth interview. In doing so the students’ ethical factors which should be developed were identified. In developing the enrichment curriculum, its structure was developed in accordance with the fundamental data. As a result, the enrichment curriculum consisted of principle and rationale for developing enrichment curriculum, concepts, theories, objectives, and structure of the enrichment curriculum. The enrichment curriculum had 4 learning units with 25 study-hours. Each learning unit consisted of learning unit description, learning objectives, content, learning management, media and learning sources, measurement and evaluation. Then the enrichment curriculum structure was evaluated by an experts focus group.

In examining the efficiency of the enrichment curriculum, the improved enrichment curriculum structure was brought to experiment with one sample group of undergraduate students at Pathumthani University. The experiment of the enrichment curriculum was One Group Pre-Posttest Design. The curriculum was improved thereafter to being completed.In studying the feasibility of the enrichment curriculum for students’ ethical improvement in Pathumthani University, experts were asked to providing opinions on its feasibility. The research results revealed as follows.

1. The results of the enrichment curriculum development. The development of the enrichment curriculum for students’ ethical improvement in Pathumthani university consisted of principle and rationale, concepts and theories concerning enrichment curriculum development, objectives, and structure of the enrichment curriculum, learning activities, learning media, measurement and evaluation.

2. The examination results on the efficiency of the enrichment curriculum. The enrichment curriculum was brought to experiment with one sample group of undergraduate students at Pathumthani University. The results were as follows.

2.1 The comparison of students’ ethical scores revealed that the posttest mean score was statistically higher than that of the pretest at .01 level.

2.2 The results of ethical evaluation in individual units during the enrichment curriculum experiment revealed that the students passed the criteria 100%. The behavioral measurement of the students revealed that they passed the criteria 100% in 4 aspects of ethical behaviors.

3. The examination results on the feasibility of the enrichment curriculum. It revealed that the feasibility of the enrichment curriculum as a whole was at the high level. When considered individual aspects found every aspect was at the high level. They were arranged in descending order of mean as follows: document of the enrichment curriculum, content of the enrichment curriculum, knowledge gained from the enrichment curriculum, duration of the enrichment curriculum, appropriateness of activities of the enrichment curriculum, media of the enrichment curriculum, and appropriateness of evaluation of the enrichment curriculum.