Intellectual Skills Assessment for the Teacher Students at the Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University☆

Abstract One of the Thailand Quality Frameworks for Higher Education is intellectual skills. The Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University has to develop the teacher students to meet the requirements of the framework. The purpose of this research is to study the ways of learning and assessment management that are used by the faculty staff to develop the teacher students’ intellectual skills. A questionnaire was used in collecting data from 30 faculty staff from the Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, and analytic induction. The research findings are as follows: 1) The intellectual skills for teacher students consisted of 5 factors; 1.1) analytical thinking 1.2) critical thinking 1.3) synthesis thinking 1.4) creative thinking and 1.5) problem solving; and 2) The assessment tasks given to the students during the learning activities included; criticizing the articles, doing a research project and attending the student development activities; and 3) Rubric scoring was used for the learning activities, learning products assessment and reporting of intellectual skill levels for each component.