Design Research in Learning Loss Recovery to Prevent Students’ Dropouts in Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has caused dramatic changes across the world
especially students’ learning. The purposes of this research were to 1) diagnose students' learning
recession and group the students according to the problem condition and needs, 2) design and develop
an prototype for rehabilitation of learning recession, and 3) analyze the results of rehabilitation of
students learning recession. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected by 5 sets of research tools:
1) Learning Recession Diagnosis Recording Form 2) Stress and Mental Health Assessment Toolkit 3)
Innovation Prototype Design and Development Recording Form 4) Supervision Toolkit 5) Reflection
Recording Form in the academic year 2022. The participants were 152 affiliated schools selscted by
purposive sampling. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics while content analysis
were used for qualitative data . The results showed that students were grouped into 3 groups: 1) Risk
group 2) Recovering group and 3) Encouraging group. The students had problems with class
attendance, learning behavior and academic skills. In addition they also had a family limitation. They
needed flexible and happy learning and digital literacy in order to create technology immunity
including the individualized education program and drug prevention network. The developed
innovation consisted of 3 levels: district level, school level and class level. This was a short-term
recovering program, and long-term recovering program. The recovering program helped students
became more ready to learn and stakeholders were satisfied.