Development of Administrative Model for Sufficiency Schools under the Primary Educational Service Area Office in Lower Northeastern Region

Abstract

This research aimed 1) to study the administrative condition of sufficiency schools under thePrimaryEducationalService Area Officeinlowernortheasternregion;2) to develop the administrative model for sufficiency schools under the Primary Educational Service Area Office in lower northeastern region; and 3) to assess the administrative model under the Primary Educational Service Area Office in lower northeastern region. For studying the administrative condition of sufficiency schools, there were two groups of research samples: 1) 4 administrators of prototype sufficiency schools from 2011 to 2013 who were drawn usingPurposiveSampling, and the data werecollected by interviews, 2) administrators, chief academic officers, and school board members from 355 schools passing the sufficiency school evaluation from 2007 to 2016. The samples were drawn using Multistage Random Sampling, and the questionnaire wasused tocollect data. For developing theadministrative model for sufficiency schools, the samples were 10 scholars, and the data were collected using Focus Group Discussion.Thesamples for assessing administrative model for sufficiency schools were 9 scholars and 40 administrators in practitioner level. The finding showed that 1) thestudyof theadministrativeconditionof sufficiency schools withtheaverageoperating level lower than the average in each aspect suggested the development framework in 5 aspects: (1) schooladministrationandmanagement, (2)curriculumand instruction, (3) student development activity, (4) human resource development, and (5) result/success. Altogether,there were 32 issues needed to be developed; 2) self-development method was used indevelopment of administrative model for sufficiency schools; and 3) the assessment of theadministrative modelof sufficiencyschools revealed that theappropriateness, the possibility, and the benefit were at the highest level.