This study is the reassessment of the implementation process of educational innovation in the school cluster systems of rural schools in Thailand. It aims specifically to use path analysis to study the relations between student outcomes and levels of implementation of educational innovation and some other school, community and context factors, such as community participation, community SES, principals' quality, school quality and teacher quality. / Data used in this study were collected separately by the Thai Office of the National Education Commission Research Committee during 1979 and 1980, but were only partially analyzed, with the analysis based on the presumption that experimental controls were sufficient. Since there were many potentially relevant differences between the experimental and control clusters besides treatment, the investigation re-analyzed the data, developing a causal model of the processes affecting student achievement outcomes. / The results of the causal analysis indicated that student past knowledge (pretest) explain 80 percent (R('2) = .797) of the variance in the posttest. This indicates the general problems faced by rural schools, where inadequate teachers, educational materials and facilities make it difficult for them to have much impact. The analysis showed school clustering to have no direct effect on student outcomes, but to have some indirect effect through student past knowledge (pretest). It also indicated that there is no direct effect on student outcomes (posttest) from principal quality or school quality, but there is an indirect effect of school quality (availability of books and library) through student past knowledge (pretest). One teacher quality factor which did have a direct effect on student outcomes is the number of grades taught by one teacher. In other words, the more grades a teacher has to teach, the lower the student scores of the pupils she or he teaches. These results have research and policy implications for the development of rural schools in Thailand and are discussed in the conclusions. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-11, Section: A, page: 3365. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75226 |
| Contributors | SUDAPRASERT, KAMOL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 271 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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