A comparison of teaching efficacy, commitment to teaching profession and satisfaction with program effectiveness of preservice teachers under 5 year-program curriculum and under 4+1 year-program curriculum

Abstract

The problems of teacher qualities have been taken into consideration for decades in Thailand. That is the reason why to change the policy of teacher preparation by revising the curriculum of teacher production from the 4 year- program to 5 year-program and 4+1 year-program. The purpose of this research was to compare the results of the curriculum of teacher productions on teaching efficacy, commitment to teaching profession and satisfaction with program effectiveness of the preservice teachers under both curricula with different fields. Participants included 322 Thai preservice teachers in 12 universities. MANCO reveals that when GPAX score is deleted both curricula the preservice teachers studied are different and different fields (science and social Sciences) are not correlative. The tests of between-subjects effects appear that the preservice teachers under 5 year-program curriculum has higher in all variables and all majors.