The Operational Network Administration Strategies to Develop the Small Schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission

Abstract

The research objectives were 1) to study the components of the operational network administration to develop the small schools 2) to study the current and desirable states of the operational network administration to develop the small schools 3) to develop the strategies of the operational network administration to develop the small schools. The research strategies was divided into three stages. The first stage was to study the components the operational network administration to develop the small schools and the samples were 9 experts derived by purposive sampling. The second stage was to study the current and desirable states of the operational network administration to develop the small schools and divided into two parts. The first part was to study the current and desirable states of the operational network administration to develop the small schools. The samples were 420 directors and representative of the networks by the Simple Random Sampling technique and applying Krejcie and Morgan’s time table. The second part was to study the strength-weakness, opportunity and threat in the operational network administration to develop the small schools from three small schools which were the best practice and the key informants were 9 directors, head of academic affair teachers and representative of the networks by purposive sampling. The third stage was to develop the strategies of the operational network administration to develop the small schools and it was divided into two parts. The first part was to draft the strategies of the operational network administration to develop the small schools. The second part was to verify and assess the appropriation and possibility of the operational network administration strategies to develop the small schools by focus group technique and the key informants were 9 experts by purposive sampling techniques. The research instruments were questionnaire, interview form, group discussion record form, assessment form etc. The statistics used in data analysis were arithmetic mean, standard deviation, PNI modified for ranking the desirable states and SWOT matrix. The qualitative data was obtained from the interview form and group discussion record form through content analysis.

The results as follow;

1. The components of the operational network administration to develop the small schools consisted of 5 components which were 1. the assignation of network members 2. the participation in processing of the networks 3.the communication and interaction 4.the leadership of network cooperators and 5.the assessment and improvement work and the assessment in appropriation was at high level( = 3.75).
2. The current stage of the operational network administration to develop the small schools as a whole was at the high level ( = 3.41) while the desirable state of the operational network administration to develop the small schools as a whole was the high level ( =4.39) and the PNI Modified as a whole was 0.28.
3. The operational network administration strategies to develop the small schools consisted of 3 main strategies as such 1) the operational network establishment motivation strategies 2) the development in processing of operational network strategies and 3) the assessment and improvement work of operational network strategies and the assessment in appropriation and possibility was at high level. ( = 4.60)