ABSTRACT

               The main objectives of this research were : (1) to study the opinions of teachers and students the toward roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kamphaengsaen District, Nakhon Pathom Province, (2) to study the comparation of teachers and students opinion toward the roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kamphaengsaen District, Nakhon Pathom Province, and (3) to study the problems and suggestions to improve the roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kamphaengsaen District, Nakhon Pathom Province. The survey research was carried out in this study.

               The survey Research and employed in the research A group of samples for this research consisted of 200 teachers and students in the schools, Kamphaengsaen  District, Nakhon Pathom Province, being drawn by stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection in this research was questionnaire comprising check-list, rating scale and opened end question with the reliability value equal  to 0.84 The programmed for social science research was employed for data analysis. The statistics used for it are frequencies, percentage, average means and standard deviation. To test the hypotheses,  t-test was used.

The findings of this research are as follows :

               1..The overall opinions of teachers toward roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kampangsean District, Nakorn Pathom Province were found at highest level (X= 4.50). Having considered by each aspect, it was also rated at the high levels at all aspects ranking from the most to the least in terms of means such as teaching preparation (X= 4.18), while teaching performance in the highest  (X= 4.53) as measurement and evaluation (X= 4.57) respectively.

               2.  The overall opinions of students toward roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kamphaengsaen District, Nakhon Pathom Province were found at highest levels (X= 4.52). Having considered by each aspect, it  was also rated at the highest levels at all aspect ranking from the most to the least in terms of means such as teaching preparation (X= 4.56) while teaching performance in the high levels at

(X= 4.47), measurement and evaluation was found to be highest level (X= 4.57).

               3.  On comparing  the opinions of teachers and students toward roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kamphaengsaen District, Nakhon Pathom Province, it was found that teachers had statistical different opinions toward roles of monks  teaching Dhamma studies in teaching preparation aspect from those of students at 0.05, while teaching performance, measurement and evaluation  did not differ.

               4.  Regarding to the problems and suggestions to improve roles of monks teaching Dhamma studies in the schools, Kamphaengsean District, Nakhon Pathom Province, it was found that were inadequate number of monks teaching Dhamma studies, learning time management and lesson plan making, less incentive, teaching materials and development of learning materials were not up to date, there was no unity in measurement and evaluation. Suggestions for improvement were noted as follows : Increasing the numbers of monks teaching  Dhamma studies, transportation for monks teaching  Dhamma studies should be provided, Managing time schedule, there should be meeting between monks teaching  Dhamma studies and school administrators, more incentive, new teaching materials and media should provided.