A Model of the Qualitative Culture of the Schools under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

The objectives of the research were 1) to study the conditions of the needs and the guidelines to develop a model of the qualitative culture of the schools, 2) to create the model of the qualitative culture of the schools, and 3) to evaluate the model of the qualitative culture of the schools under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office. The research was conducted in 3 phases. The first phase was to study the conditions of the needs and the guidelines to develop the model of the qualitative culture of the sample schools. The samples were 265 school administrators and 368 teachers. They were randomized by stratified random sampling. The second phase was to create the model of the qualitative culture of the schools. The criticism of the draft of the model and the qualitative cultural handbook of the schools was done by focus group discussion. The target group consisted of 12 experts selected by purposive sampling. The third phase was to evaluate the model of the qualitative culture of the schools. The target group consisted of 17 experts. The research instruments were a questionnaire, a recorded data form, data synthesis from comments, and an evaluation form. The statistics used in the research were mean and standard deviation.

          The research findings were as follows.

1. The conditions of the needs of the model of the qualitative culture of the schools in the overall were at the highest level (x̅ =4.71) and the guidelines to develop the model of the qualitative culture of the schools consisted of 6 aspects. When each aspect was organized from the highest to the lowest mean scores, admiration and giving awards and strategic management had the highest mean scores, followed by qualitative leadership, human resource development, teamwork, and continual revision. The guidelines to develop the model of the qualitative culture of the schools used the leadership to drive the qualitative culture by participating and reinforcing positively.
2. The created model of the quality culture of the schools consisted of qualitative leadership, teamwork, admiration and giving awards, strategic management, human resource development, and continual revision.
3. The findings of the evaluation of the model of the qualitative culture of the schools revealed that the overall of the appropriateness, the possibility, and the usefulness was at the highest level.