Guidelines for the Development of Education Quality Assurance for Schools Under the Mae Hong Son Secondary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1. study the current conditions and problems of educational quality assurance; 2. examine the development of educational quality assurance in schools with best practices, and 3. propose guidelines for developing educational quality assurance for schools under the Mae Hong Son Secondary Educational Service Area Office. The informants were: 1) 210 Administrators and teachers at schools under the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area, a total, using a 5-level estimation questionnaire; 2) Administrators or teachers responsible for educational quality assurance in schools that received national awards, using semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and content analysis.

The research findings revealed that: 1. The current condition of schools' educational quality assurance operations under the Mae Hong Son Secondary Educational Service Area Office was at a high level ( = 4.50, S.D.= 0.58). When considering each aspect, it was found that the standard setting of educational institutions has the lowest average ( = 4.05, S.D.= 0.75). For the problem conditions of the educational quality assurance operations of schools under the Mae Hong Son Secondary Educational Service Area Office were found to include unclear operational guidelines for the preparation of an educational development plan (f = 107); 2. The study on the development of educational quality assurance of schools with best practices in all six areas found the following administrative innovations: 1) Dara Academy Team Model, 2) SARAPEE Model, and 3) The STAR Model, which concretely answers the needs of the internal education quality assurance system. 3. Guidelines for developing educational quality assurance for schools under the Mae Hong Son Secondary Educational Service Area Office include: 1) Principles, 2) Aims, and 3) Operating systems, which will operate according to the quality cycle, including the 3.1) Planning stage, 3.2) Implementation, 3.3) Inspection, 3.4) Operational development stage, 4) Measurement and evaluation, and 5) Success conditions.