A Model of Academic Administration – Based on World Class Standard Schools in Secondary Educational Service Area

Abstract

The research objectives were 1) to investigate conditions, problems and solution guidelines, and factors supporting academic administration; 2) to create the academic administration model and instruction manual and to confirm basically; and 3) to study the results of implementing. The research was divided into 3 phases: 1) to investigate conditions, problems and solution guidelines, and factors supporting academic administration; instrument used was a questionnaire analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation; the solution guidelines used an open-ended questions analyzed by grouping; 2) to create the academic administration model and instruction manual and to confirm basically; instrument used was a structured interview form analyzed by analytic induction and descriptive analysis; and 3) to study the results of implementing; instruments used were the academic administration model and  instruction manual, a form of supervision, monitoring, and following-up in accordance with PDCA quality cycle, meeting note-taking analyzed by using content analysis and summarized issues.  The results found that 1) the conditions in term of practice / reality were at a high level; problems were several aspects; the schools should have a quality management system and participatory administration; factors supporting academic administration were three potentials overall at a high level; 2) the results of creating the academic administration model and using manual and to confirm basically composed of 6  components; 3) the results of implementing were the operative results of all group of research participants were overall at the highest level.