Conditions and Components of Educational Technology Administration According to School Library Standard, the Office of the Basic Education Commission
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https://doi.org/10.14456/rcmrj.2021.243642Keywords:
School library standard, Educational technology, The Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC)Abstract
The objective of this research was to study Conditions and components of educational technology administration according to the school library standard of the Office of the Basic Education Commission. Population and samples were administrators and teacher librarians or teachers who were responsible for libraries from 11,611 schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, which were small schools with no more than 120 students. Employing Taro Yamane's ready-made tables, the sample group was 400 schools. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Analyze quantitative data by finding frequency, percentage, mean ( ), standard deviation (S.D.). Analyzing the data by synthesis content and present the information through descriptive explanation from open-ended questions. The research findings revealed that the conditions of educational technology management according to the school library standard criteria (5 categories, 17 standards) was at a high level ( = 3.55). The three factors; Educational Technology Administration Board, scope of educational technology, and educational technology management process affected educational technology management at a medium level ( = 3.26). The research findings provide a guidance to solve teaching and learning problems in small schools by managing educational technology in order to enable teaching and learning to be effective and students have been developing to use educational technology in the pursuit of knowledge continuously for lifelong learning.
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