Approaches for Academic Management Development of Secondary Schools According to The Concept of Digital Intelligence

Abstract

The purposes of this research study are as follows: (1) to study the current conditions and the desirable conditions of the academic management of the secondary schools according to the concept of digital intelligence and (2) to provide the guidelines for developing the academic management of the secondary schools according to the concept of digital intelligence.

This research study is a qualitative research study. The population included 26 secondary schools under Ratchaburi Secondary Education Area Office. The informants were the school directors, the deputy-directors of the academic management and the heads of learning groups. The total number of the informants was 260. The statistics were percentage, mean, standard deviation, need analysis and content analysis.

The findings were as follows. Firstly, the current conditions of the academic management of the secondary schools according to the concept of digital intelligence generally were at the high level. The desirable conditions of the academic management of the secondary schools according to the concept of digital intelligence generally were at the highest level.
The most needed components of the academic management were learning management. Secondly, there were four guidelines for the academic management of the secondary schools according to the concept of digital intelligence as follows: (1) develop the learning management that promotes students’ emotional quotients in the digital world and digital safety, (2) develop curriculum that promotes the characteristics of the emotional quotients in the digital world,
(3) improve the measurements and evaluations of the academic results by focusing on the actual conditions, and (4) develop and promote learning sources that encourage the students to have the characteristics of the emotional quotients in the digital world and digital safety.