A Model of Educational Resource Mobilization of Small Schools under the Office of Basic Educational Commission in Lower Northeastern Region

Abstract

The objectives of this research were (1) to construct a model and (2) to evaluate the efficiency of the model of educational resource mobilization of small schools under the Office of Basic Educational Commission in Lower Northeastern Region. The methodology is of 6 stages, namely (1) to study the documents and the research concerned with Educational Resource Mobilization covering 4 main types of personal, financial, learning resource, and educational device and technological resource mobilization, and then to interview the connoisseurs as the basic educational administrators, teachers of the small schools under the Office as such for integrating the research conceptual framework, (2) to construct the drafted model, (3) to evaluate the quality of the drafted model by means of the first round of focus group discussion, (4) to improve that model as commented by those connoisseurs, (5) to evaluate the efficiency of the model by asking 544 administrators and teachers of those schools as above mentioned and then compute the data by application of mean, and standard deviation, and (6) to affirm the model by the second round of focus group discussion.

The research findings were as follows:The model of educational resource mobilization of small schools under the Office of Basic Educational Commission in Lower Northeastern Region covering (1) the personal resource mobilization with the practical guideline of developing the qualified administrators and teachers including students, promoting the institutional products, volunteering mind, participating of parents, community and the sectors concerned as well as school networking, and also of local intellectual integration for educational management, (2) financial resource mobilization with the guidelines for planning the financial mobilization emphasizing on participating, using the finance for school work producing to make the parents, community and the public believe, well relating with community, and mobilizing the finance resource transparently, (3) learning resource mobilization with the guidelines of planning with the community to set the learning center within the institutions, collecting as well as preserving data and learning information for institutions and community by means of precise participating, enhancing the learning process based upon the learning resource mobilizing, and (4) educational device and technological resource mobilization with the guidelines of constructing the plan, project, activities based upon the needs of the educational materials, and administrators’ technological leadership, opening the school board committee participate in material management, trying to allocate or to have material provision, donation for a distance learning through satellite learning from the Distance Learning Foundation and other material from various sectors both state or private ones.

2. To evaluate the efficiency of model of educational resource mobilization of small schools under the Office of Basic Educational Commission in Lower Northeastern Region, it was found that the model has the efficiency as a whole in the high level.