Participatory Knowledge Management Model at Group 8 of General Education Division in PhraPariyattitham Schools

Abstract

                  The research entitled, “Participatory Knowledge Management Model at Group 8 ofGeneral Education Division inPhraPariyattitham Schools”, aimed 1) to study the state of the participatory knowledge management at group 8 ofGeneral Education Division inPhraParityattitham Schools, 2) to create the participatory knowledge management model for the group 8 ofGeneral Education Division inPhraPariyattitham schools, and 3) to evaluatethe participatory knowledge management model at group 8 ofGeneral Education Division inPhraPariyattitham schools.

                  The samples used in the first period of this research were 169, i.e.38 administrators, and 131 teachers who were teaching at the group 8 ofGeneral Education Division inPhraPariyattitham Schools in the academic year of 2014. While in the second period of this research, the 9 informants were invited to participate in a focus group discussion. And in last period, the 20 experts were invited to be as the informants forevaluation.

                 The instruments used in this research were the questionnaire, focus group discussion, and the evaluation by the experts. In the quality test, the only items of questionnaire withabove .50 value of the IOC wereacceptable, and in the reliability test, Cronbach’s alpha value wasrated at .896. The statistics used for quantitative data analysis in this research were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. In addition, the content analysis was employed for the qualitative data which were concluded from the experts’ suggestions.

                 The research findings revealed that

1. The state of the participatory knowledge management at group 8 ofGeneral Education Division inPhraParityattitham Schools overall were at high level. Especially, the knowledge search aspect was at the highest level; the knowledge construction aspect was at the lower, and the lowest level was the learning exchange aspect.
2. The participatory knowledge management model for the group 8 of General Education Division in PhraPariyattitham schools consisted of 2 variables that were relevant to each other, i.e. the 5 participatory factors and the 5 knowledge management factors.
3. The results of evaluation for the appropriate and possible participatory management model for the group 8 of General Education Division in PhraPariyattitham schools overall were at the highest level, while each aspect was found at the highest level, as well.