The Guideline for Supporting Academic Administration in the Digital Era of the School Administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Nonthaburi

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the academic administration in the digital era of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Nonthaburi, 2) to compare the academic administration in the digital era of school administrators, classified by gender, education level, work experience and school size. 3) to propose guidelines for supporting academic administration in the digital era. The study samples consisted of 320 participants, selected by stratified random sampling based on school size. The research instrument questionnaires with IOC value of .67-1.00 and a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .98. The Data analysis using frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, LSD, and Interview Form by content analysis.
The research results were as follows: 
1) the academic administration in the digital era of school administrators area, at a high level overall. The highest average scores supervision monitoring and evaluation of educational quality followed by the development of student development activities and student support systems, followed by high level the areas of instructional process development, collaboration and stakeholder engagement in education, production of diverse media and innovations, and digital-era curriculum development, respectively. 
2) the comparison of the teachers’ opinions found that work experience and schools of different sizes had statistically significant differences at the .05 level. 
3) the guidelines for supporting academic administration in the digital era school administrators should promote the development of school curricula that align more closely with the context of the digital age, they should utilize educational and community data to systematically, and continuously design local curricula that 
genuinely respond to the needs of students and the community.