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Correlates of agriculture students’ creativity in Yala Rajabhat University in Thailand: Analysis of teaching styles, learning styles, and technology integration
Dissertation Abstract:
The study determined the agriculture students’ learning styles and creativity and their perception of their teachers’ teaching styles and technology integration in the Department of Agricultural Technology (DAT), Yala Rajabhat University (YRU); examine the association among learning styles, teaching styles, technology integration, and creativity; and determine policy implications to enhance the teaching and learning processes in DAT. This research involved 124 students and 10 teachers. Descriptive and quantitative research methods were employed to gather data using the closed type survey questionnaires. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, means, range, and percentages were used to analyze the data. Chi-square test of independence was applied to test the null hypotheses.
Results of the study showed that most of the agriculture students exhibited the collaborative and participatory learning styles. More than half possessed very high creativity level. The students perceived their teachers as having the demonstrator teaching style, while technology integration in teaching was at a high level.
Among the variables, technology integration had highly significant association with teaching styles and significant association with creativity. It was presumed that technology played an important role in education as well as enhanced the students’ creativity. As to the level of creativity required of students, over half of the courses in the Agricultural Science program required very high creativity level; in the Food Science and Technology program, more than half of the courses required high creativity level.
It is proposed that student creativity be promoted through educational management. The three primary policy implications center on teaching, learning, and curriculum design that will enhance the teaching-learning processes in the DAT and thus enable its graduates to compete in this globalization era.