Development of Competency-based Curriculum Instructional Package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103) Welding Inspection and Testing Branch, Higher Vocational Certificate Program under the Office of Vocational Education Commission

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to: 1) construct a competency-based curriculum  instructional package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103), 2) study the efficiency of the competency-based curriculum instructional package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103), 3) compare the learning achievement of students through  of the competency-based curriculum instructional package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103), and 4) study the students' satisfaction towards the competency-based curriculum instructional package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103). The population used in this study included the second year diploma students in Metallurgical Engineering Department, Surat Thani Technical College who enrolled in the subject of Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103) in the second semester of the academic year 2021. The sample group consisted of 14 students of that major derived by cluster random sampling technique. The research instruments included the instructional package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103) containing 5 learning units, pre and posttest of each unit and students’ satisfaction assessment.

The results showed that the efficiency of the competency-based curriculum instructional package for Non-destructive Welding Testing Course (30103-2103) was 82.74/82.32. The students' post-test scores were significantly higher than those of the pretest scores at the .01 level. Moreover, the students reported high level of satisfaction towards the RBL learning model.