The Development of Teacher and Educational Personnel Promotional Assessment Framework in Thailand

• Main Author: AMPORN TAMRONGLAK
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2013-08-01
• Series: Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan
• Online Access: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jsp/article/view/64

<p>The main purpose of this paper is to present a per-formance evaluation framework for teacher and edu-cational personnel in<br />Thailand. Based on the re-search funded by Office of the Teacher Civil Service and Educational Personnel Commission, it is<br />aimed primarily to study the model of academic standing assessment of teacher civil service and educational personnel and to<br />develop criteria and methods for the four tracks of personnel in Thailand, including teaching, educational institution<br />administration, educational administration, and educational super-vision. Various methods in gathering data for the study were<br />employed, including 1) documentary re-search of four different countries, such as United States of America, England, Singapore<br />and HongKong; 2) site visits to the government agencies re-sponsible for educational assessment and develop-ment and schools<br />in Hong Kong and Singapore; 3) in-depth interviews with Executives in Ministry of Education and a number of stakeholders who<br />had requested for the promotional assessment from all four career tracks; 4) focus group method among experts in the field; and<br />5) public hearing opened to all stakeholders in teaching careers was also orga-nized to gather comments and suggestions and<br />fine-tune the proposed framework prior to submission to the Office of the Teacher Civil Service and Educa-tional Personnel<br />Commission for further application in the future.<br />KEYWORDS: Performance evaluation, Promotional<br />Assessment Framework, Academic ranking assess-ment of teacher in Thailand</p>