การปฏิบัติตนตามจรรยาบรรณของวิชาชีพของครูในโรงเรียน สังกัดองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่น อำเภอหนองแค จังหวัดสระบุรี

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to examine teachers’ self-conducting within the code of professional ethics of teachers in schools under the Local Administrative Organizations (LAOs) in Nong Khae district, Saraburi province. The code of professional ethics included personal ethics, professional ethics, client centered ethics, collegial ethics, and societal ethics, and to compare the self-conducting of the code of professional ethics of teachers classified by gender, educational level, and work experiences. The sample, obtained through simple random sampling, consisted of 118 teachers in schools under the LAOs in Nong Khae district, Saraburi province. The sample size was determined using the Krecie and Morgan’s table, and a simple random sampling. The research instrument was a 5–level rating scale questionnaire with a discriminative power of 0.60 and a reliability of 0.96. The statistics employed for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and
One-Way ANOVA.

            The results revealed that the self-conducting within the code of professional ethics of teachers in schools under the LAOs in Nong Khae district, Saraburi province, overall and each aspect was at a high level (= 4.05), and arranged in a descending order as follows: personal ethics (= 4.15), professional ethics (= 4.05), and collegial ethics, (= 4.05), client centered ethics (=4.04), and societal ethics (= 3.96). In terms of gender, teachers’ opinions were not different in overall and each aspect. In terms of educational level, teachers’ opinions were significantly different at the 0.05 level in overall and each aspect. The opinions of teachers holding a bachelor degree (= 4.33) were higher than the teachers with a bachelor degree (= 3.91). In terms of work experiences, teaches’ opinions were significantly different at the 0.05 level in overall and each aspect. The opinions of teachers with work experiences from 11 to 20 years reached the highest level (= 4.23), and higher than ones with over 20 year-work experiences (= 4.13), and ones with lower than 10 year-work experiences (= 3.72). This research could be concluded that the self-conducting on the code of professional ethics of teachers in schools under the LAOs in Nong Khae district, Saraburi province was, overall and each aspect, at a high level. The teachers were exemplary concerning continuous professional self-development for teachers with limited work experiences or new experienced teachers.