A Secondary School Administration Model to Excellence

Abstract

        The purposes of this research were 1) to study components of a secondary school administration model to excellence, 2) to develop the secondary school administration model to excellence, and 3) to evaluate the developed model. The research applied the mixed qualitative and quantitative research mythology by dividing the research into 3 procedures. 1) The first procedure was to study components of the secondary school administration model to excellence by synthesizing documents and related researches and interviewing 7 experts. 2) The second procedure was to develop the secondary school administration model to excellence by studying the conditions of the secondary school administration to excellence, examining the appropriateness of the model structure that received from the first procedure, arranging the meeting to brainstorm the opinions from the focus group discussion, and having the experts/specialists check the content validity receiving the index of the validity of the whole content at .968.  The data were collected from 125 school administrators and teachers acting as heads of departments from 25 schools selected by purposive sampling 5 people from each school based on the regulated criteria that required the schools receiving royal awards or the schools that the students had the national tests with the mean scores of the test higher than the national mean scores, the schools receiving national awards, or the international schools. 3) The third procedure was to evaluate the secondary school administration model to excellence by arranging a seminar for experts and specialists.                 The research findings were as follows.                1. The components of the secondary school administration to excellence consisted of 7 components: 1) using strategy plans, 2) school administrator leadership, 3) expectation towards success, 4) administration processes, 5) human resource administration, 6) learning management processes, and 7) focusing on students.               2. The secondary school administration model to excellence consisted of 1) using strategy plans, 2) using appropriate school administrator leadership and administrators that could be models and had morality and advance in thinking, 3) setting the goals at the students to have quality and to be the most usefulness, 4) clear administration with focusing on all quality, 5) learning management processes by adjusting learning and teaching methods based on the students’ interests and talents, 6) human resource administration: cooperating teamwork, committing to educational institutes, and participating in working, and 7) expectation towards success.  

3) The findings of the evaluation of the secondary school administration model to excellence by arranging the seminar for 9 experts and specialists showed that the model was appropriate, possible, relevant, and useful at a high level in all components.

Keywords: A Model,  the Secondary School Administration , Excellence