Development of Information System for Forecasting the Quality of Curriculum Administration in Business Computer Program, Management Science Faculty, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
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The objectives of this research were 1) to analyze factors affecting curriculum administration in Business Computer Program, Management Science Faculty, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 2) to analyze the structural equation model of the quality of curriculum administration affecting student quality and satisfaction of graduate users, and 3) to propose Information System for forecasting the quality of curriculum administration. The research population was 55 administrators and academic staff at Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University related to the administration of the business computer curriculum, Faculty of Management Science, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Data collection was implemented by the researcher. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using the SmartPLS program. The research findings revealed that (1) factors of the curriculum quality at the higher education level arranged in order of importance from most to least: policies, things to support learning, student, family, teaching workload, teaching media, and teaching methods, respectively, (2) the quality of the curriculum has a direct effect on the quality of the students, the quality of students has a direct effect on the satisfaction of graduate users, and the quality of the curriculum has an indirect effect on the satisfaction of graduate users through student quality, and (3) Information System for forecasting the quality of curriculum administration of the Business Computer Program, Faculty of Management Science, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University has 4 main components: 1) curriculum data management, 2) curriculum quality forecasting, 3) display and reporting, and 4) data maintenance and updating. Also, there should be a Dashboard that can report forecast results.
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