Supervision and Assessment of Carrying out Undertakings for Observing Five Precepts in Villages of Thailand’s Northeast Region by making use of CIPP Model

Abstract

The research served specific purposes to follow up undertakings for villagers’ five-precept observance, assess results of undertakings  for their observance by making use of CIPP Model and examine suggestions for continuing their next observance. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaires inspected by experts following the structures and contents. Sites of conducting the research took place in villages of Thailand’s northeast region in Roi Et, Maha Sarakham, Surin, Nongbua Lamphu and Si Sa Ket provinces. The populations employed for the research were panels of the project at the village level, comprised of abbots, village headmen, members of tambon administrative organizations or municipality council members to villages and villagers, numbering 500 individuals. The sampling groups garnering through purposive selection formed 488 subjects. Statistics utilized for processing data embraced frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations.

           The research results were as follows:1. Results of following up undertakings for villagers’ five-precept observance and assessing results of their performance therein by making use of the above model found the overall mean of all items amounted to 4.28. Given each item in descending order of its mean, the first highest one was the context with its mean of 4.41, whereas the lower one was the input with its mean of 4.28. As for the lowest item, it was the process with its mean of 4.15. 2. It was suggested in descending order of frequencies to carry out undertakings for five-precept-observed villages.  First, the provincial sector had to successively allocate budgets for support. Next, villagers perceived the most ethical decency; their family life stayed warm and communities were peaceful. Then, it was far too hard for villages where villagers observed five precepts to the extent that their villages would be elevated as the outstanding places at the provincial level.