A development of a practical training course to enhance lecturers’ potentiality in educational subject in Bachelor of Science in Technical Education

Abstract

          The purpose of this research was to develop and assess a suitability of the practical training course to enhance lecturers’ potentiality in the educational subject in the Bachelor of Science in Technical Education. The research process commenced from a study of concepts, theories and related research about a development of a practical training course, generating technical teachers roles and educational subject teachers’ functions was analyzed and synthesized to be a draft manual which consisted of 12 components. Then, the components of lesson plans are created from 18 topics of Training topics. Next, a practical training course’s manual is created. This manual consists of three parts; part 1: training practical course, part 2: lesson plan and part 3: appendix. Afterwards, an assessment of the suitability form for the practical training course is created. This assessment form uses the five scale-rating technique. Data was collected from the assessment of the qualifying criteria, 7 experts that were composed of the lecturers who have experience in teaching practical education course, or a related course in Bachelor of Science in Technical Education and development of training courses. The obtained data is analyzed for means and standard deviations. The results found that the suitability of a practical training course in overall was at high level. Therefore, it can be concluded that the developed practical training course has acceptable quality and can be implemented to train the lecturers’ potentiality in educational subjects.