A Guideline for Promoting Creative Educational Innovation and Filing Patent for Pre-service Teachers in Thailand

Abstract

The purposes of the study were; 1) to compare the results of creative educational innovation and filing patents for pre-service teachers between 2017 and 2020 academic years and 2) to create a guideline for promoting creative educational innovation and filing patents for pre-service teachers. The samples were two groups of pre-service teachers; 520 pre-service teachers in 2017 academic year and 416 pre-service teachers in 2020 academic years. The research instrument were questionnaires and the data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation (SD), and t - test statistic. The results were the following; 1) The perspectives from the two groups of pre-service teachers toward instructional media and filing patent, were statistically significant with level differences of .05. 2) The guideline has 6 processes; 1) Acquire knowledge 2) Identify problems 3) Plan and data searching 4) Create instructional media 5) Try out and improve and 6) Prepare document for filing the patent. The contributing factors of successful creative educational innovation were from inspirations and their teachers.