The Internal Supervision Administration of Secondary Schools Under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Kanchanaburi and Ratchaburi

Abstract

          The research aimed to study the internal supervision administration of secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Kanchanaburi, to study the internal supervision administration of secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi, and compare the internal supervision administration of secondary schools, classified by different school educational service area office. The samples consisted of 217 administrators and heads of learning strands in secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Kanchanaburi and Ratchaburi, obtained by stratified random sampling.  The research instrument was a five-level- rating scale questionnaire with the reliability at 0.98. The data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.
          The research findings revealed that:
           1. The internal supervision administration of secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Kanchanaburi was overall and in each individual aspect at a high level, ranking in the order of mean from high to low as follows: curriculum development, direct assistance to teachers, professional development, action research, and group development.
          2. The internal supervision administration of secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi was overall and in each individual aspect at a high level, ranking in the order of mean from high to low as follows: direct assistance to teachers, curriculum development, professional development, group development, and action research.
          3. The comparison results of the internal supervision administration of secondary schools, classified by different school educational service area office, overall were different at 0.01 level of significance. When considering each individual aspect found that curriculum development, professional development, and action research were different at 0.01 level of significance whilst direct assistance to teachers, and group development were different at 0.05 level of significance. That is the internal supervision administration of secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Kanchanaburi more than Ratchaburi.