Assessing the achievement of cooperative education program faculty of science and technology

Abstract

"The objectives of this research were 1) to study the environment of cooperative education of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn, and 2) to study the achievement of this cooperative education project towards the development of graduates competency in the first semester of academic year 2012. The research methodology consisted of 2 stages. The first was to study the environment of the cooperative education from both data sources of printed and electronic by comparing their content to the standard of Thai Association for Cooperative Education. The second was to study the achievement of this cooperative education project towards the development of graduates competency by using questionnaires to survey opinions of all stakeholders in this project of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn. Three sampling groups were from educational institutes, enterprises and students. The number was 211 in total. Analyses applied included social statistics particularly descriptive statistics which were number, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The most important findings are as follows: 1. With regard to the study the environment of cooperative education of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn, it was found that it covered all 4 standards of Thai Association for Cooperative Education; that is, 1) curriculum of cooperative education, 2) supervision of cooperative education, 3) students of cooperative education and 4) assessment and evaluation of cooperative education. 2. The study of stakeholders to the achievement of cooperative education of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn shows that 1) educational institutes had a very positive attitude, 2) enterprises an average attitude and 3) students a very positive attitude. The obstacle affecting the achievement of cooperative education of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn was that the university did not have the central to fully manage and support cooperative education for all aspects such as resources, learning space, supplies, human resources and most importantly IT managing system. Also there were problems with correct knowledge towards cooperative education of enterprises and that students did not receive any payment"