Need Assessment and Guidelines for English Communicative Proficiency of School Principals in Schools under The Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Education Service Area Office 6

Abstract

The purposes of the present descriptive research were to study the needs assessment for English communicative proficiency of school principals in schools and to study for the guidelines to develop English communicative proficiency of school principals in schools under the Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Education Service Area Office 6.  The collected data were analyzed for quantitative and qualitative statistics. The study was organized to carry out in 2 phases: The first phase was for the collection of quantitative data in which 123 school principals were randomly selected by way of drawing numbers from a total population of 181 school principals in 181 schools to be used as samples. The instrument used for the study was a 5-level rating-scale questionnaire which a reliability coefficient value of .968 the collected data were analyzed by means of a computer program for frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation, and to specify the needs by using Modified Priority Needs Index (Modified PNI).  The second phase was for the collection of qualitative data through the Multi-Attribute Consensus Reaching (MACR). The target groups this phase consisted of 10 experts.  The instrument used in this phase was a questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by means of content analysis and the results were presented in a descriptive manner.

The results showed that:

The study of the needs assessment for English communicative proficiency of school principals under the Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Education Service Area Office 6, as a whole, show the needs on four aspects of  1) listening  2) writing  3) reading and  4) speaking, with the Modified PNI ranging from 0.268 to 0.313. and the guidelines to develop English communicative proficiency of school principals in schools under the Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Education Service Area Office 6, each item had as mean ranging from 81.44 to 96.22 and range from 1 to 13