Administrative Policy Suggestions for the Primary Schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 to Quality

Abstract

The objectives of the research were 1) to study current conditions and guidelines for administrating the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 to quality, 2) to create administrative policy suggestions for the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 to quality, 3) to evaluate the administrative policy suggestions for the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 to quality. In the first phase, the samples used in the research were 335 administrators in the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14. A school was selected to do a multiple case study and in-depth interview. The research instruments were a questionnaire and an interview form. In the second phase, the target group consisted of 12 experts selected by purposive sampling. The research instrument was an evaluation form. In the third phase, the target group consisted of 22 experts. The research instrument was an evaluation form. The statistics used in the research were percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

              The research findings were as follows.

1. The current conditions of the administration of the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 in the overall were at a high level (x̅=4.08, S=.76). The administrative guidelines were that 1) in the quality of the learners, the school should provide various systems in working and use local resources to build the participation between the communities and the schools to lead the schools to have quality, 2) in the administrative and management processes, the administration should be conducted honestly, the administrative systems should be managed in the ways that made the residents in the community trust the teachers and administrators, and 3) in teaching and learning management, working experiences among teachers should be shared, and the teachers and staff should work in the positions matching with their skills in all learning subject groups.
2. The administrative policy suggestions for the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 to quality consisted of 1) in the quality of the learners, the development of the learning achievement should be focused on, especially the ability of the analysis thinking, the creation of the innovation, and the communication, 2) in the administrative and management processes, the information technology systems should be supported to have them in the schools to be used to support administration, management and learning management and to develop teachers and staff to have skills in their careers, 3) in teaching and learning management, the teachers should be supported to share knowledge, provide reflecting data to develop and improve learning management, and be supported to administrate and manage their classrooms positively.
3. The findings of the evaluation of the developed administrative policy suggestions for the primary schools under the Office of Educational Region 14 to quality showed that the overall of the appropriateness, the possibility, and the usefulness, was at the highest level in all aspects.