Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the state and problem of the development of local curriculum as perceived by teacher officials in secondary schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of General Education in Ubon Ratchathani Province and to compare the opinions of the teacher officials as they were classified by positions, work experiences, and school sizes. There were five aspects of the local curriculum development namely, adapting teaching and learning activities, adapting the content of individual subjects, improving teaching and learning media, developing new teaching and learning media, and developing new subjects. The sample group of this research contained 446 teacher officials: 108 administrators and 338 teachers. The research instrument was a questionnaire with there liability value of .97. The statistic procedures employed in the data analysis were percentage, frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test and Scheffe paired-matching comparisons.
The research findings were as follows:
1. The teacher officials thought the overall state and the problems of the local curriculum development were at a moderate level.
2. The opinion about the overall state of the local curriculum development show by the administrators was not significantly different from that illustrated by the teachers. Their opinions regarding the overall problem were, however, significantly different at the level of .01.
3. The teacher officials who had different work experiences did not show significant different opinions regarding the overall state of the local curriculum development, but their opinions regarding the overall problems were significantly different at the level of .01.
4. The teacher officials from schools of different sizes expressed significantly different opinions, at the level of .05, regarding the overall state of the local curriculum development and their opinions regarding the overall problems were also significantly different at the level of .01.