THE EFFECT OF USING A TRAINING COURSE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS APPLYING THE SYNECTICS

TECHNIQUE TO ENHANCE MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SKILL FOR COMMUNITY STRENGTHENING

THE EFFECT OF USING A TRAINING COURSE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS APPLYING THE SYNECTICS

TECHNIQUE TO ENHANCE MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SKILL FOR COMMUNITY STRENGTHENING

Fisik Sean Buakanok Lampang Rajabhat University, THAILAND Fisik Sean Buakanok Lampang Rajabhat University, THAILAND

Introduction What makes an effective “Leader”?

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Not enough

A great leader must have training in certain skills and

abilities

Integrated Technology to the leader is a benefit-it’s the means of gaining

knowledge

Purposes of the study 1. Assess the effectiveness of using a training course for

community leaders in Lampang province, Thailand, applying the synectics technique, to enhance multimedia production skill for community strengthening.

2. Assess the effects of the training course in terms of enhancing creative thinking among community leaders.

3. Assess the community leader’s satisfaction with the training course.

Methodology

• Participants: 30 community leaders from Lukes’ village, Thailand. Of the participants, 36.66% were female; 63.33% were male.The participants were between 41 and 65 years of age.

• A 3-day training course.

• The effect of the training was evaluated by means and standard deviation tests and a questionnaire.

A 3-day training course.

Data collection

1. Multimedia Skill Test: It was developed by examining related literature and expert views on the subject matter.

2. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT-test) Forms A : These tests invite examinees to draw and give a title to their drawings (pictures) can be used for pre- and post testing. (Torrance, 1968)

3. Questionnaires: The items asked about the demographic information of the leader and their satisfaction with the process of leader training in the course.

Findings and Results

1. The effect of using a training course (with a 3 day trial length)

Samples (N=30)Statistics.

SD Levels

Attention- measures impact of media after it has been made.

4.48 0.61 high

Interest- measures level of interest in the multimedia.

4.48 0.66 high

Desire- measures the level of importance that the media has

4.30 0.67 high

Conviction- measures the confidence in the multimedia to solve problems

4.40 0.57 high

Action- measures the level of action prompted by the multimedia.

4.15 0.61 high

Total 4.36 0.62 high

2. Analysis of the scores of the TTCT

Fluency Flexibil-ity

Original-ity

Evalua-tion

Pre test

14.14 11.03 20.11 76.93

Post test

19.21 17.68 53.14 90.23

5

25

45

65

85

Pre test

Creative Thinking

3. The effect of the training course on the community leaders’ satisfaction

3.353.553.75

leaders’ satisfaction

Issue

Mean

Discussion

Synectic technique(CAUCHINO MODEL).

Multimedia production skillsKnowledge Training.