TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF ADMINISTRATORS AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KANCHANABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

                The purpose of this research were to determine: 1) Transformational leadership of administrators of secondary school in Kanchanaburi province 2) Information and communication technology of secondary school in Kanchanaburi province 3) The relationship between transformational leadership of administrators and Information and communication technology of secondary school in Kanchanaburi province. The sample consisted of 28 secondary schools in Kanchanaburi province. The research instrument was a questionnaire regarding transformational leadership of school administrators based on Kouzes and Posner and information and communication technology Thailand’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry of Education 2557-2559 The statistics used in data analysis were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’ s product moment correlation coefficient.

              The results of this research were as follow:

              1. Transformational leadership of administrators of secondary school in Kanchanaburi province as a whole was at high level and as each aspect was high level when arranged by arithmetic mean from the highest to the lowest as follows: enabling others to act, modeling the way, challenging the process, encouraging the heart, inspiring a shared vision.

               2. Information and communication technology of secondary school in Kanchanaburi province as a whole was at high level and as each aspect was high level when arranged by arithmetic mean from the highest to the lowest as follows: to enhance teachers and educational personnel' s proficiency in using ICT, to study the development of ICT system, to support the administrative management and service by developing the fundamental structure of ICT, to expand the opportunity to approach educational service and lifelong learning and promote course networking system, To develop students and promote research that enhances technology and innovation knowledge for education.

             3. The relationship between transformational leadership of administrators and Information and communication technology of secondary school in Kanchanaburi province as a whole and individual were positive correlation with statistically significant at the .01 level.