Abstract:
The purposes of this research were (a) to study the administration following the primary school quality standards of school administrators, (b) to compare the perceptions of administrators on administrators on administration following the primary school quality standards according to administrative positions, number of years in administrative experience, and school sizes, and (c) to acquire suggestions from the respondents concerning the improvement of school administration following the primary school quality standards. The population of this study was 844 primary school administrators. Krejcie and Morgans sample size table, proportional stratified random sampling according to number of schools in each district and school sizes, and simple random sampling were utilized to assigned 264 subjects to participate in this study. All 264 (100%) of responses were received. The research instrument was a guestionmaire comprising of 44 items with three parts : check list, open-ended questions, and a five-point rating scale. The item discrimination index was between 1.973 5.539 and the reliabrlity of quiestionmaire was .9851. Data were analyzed to be percentage, means, and standard deviation. One-way analysis of variance. Was employed to test the hypotheses of this study. The level of significance was set at .05. The Findings can be concluded as below. The study found that school administrators perceived that the administration following the primary school quality standards: a student quality standard. a teaching and learning standard, and an administration standard, was at a high degree of performance in the whole aspects as well as in each aspect. Comparing the degrees of administrative performance, the results can be concluded as follows. It was found that there was statistically significant difference at .05 among the perceptions of administrators with different administrative positions in the degree of administrative performance following the primary school quality standards and the administrative standards. The results indicated that the degree of administrative performance of school directors was higher then the principals and the degree of administrative performance of principals was higher than the headmasters. Focusing on number of years in administrative experience, it was found that there was no statistically significant difference among the perceptions of administrators with differing experience in administrative performance relating to primary school quality standards. However, the administrators perceived differently in the degree of administrative performance at .05 level with the aspect of the student quality standard. Administrators with less than 5 years more than 10 years experience showed a higher degree of administrative performance than these with 5-10 years of experience. Concerning the sizes of schools, administrators of different of school showed different perceptions in the degree of administrative performance at .01 level following primary school quality standards Determining as an aspect, administrators of different sizes of school perceived differently in the degree of administrative performance of primary school quality standards. These differences were statistically significant at .05 level. Administrators of large schools showed a higher degree of administrative performance than those of medium and schools in the aspect of student quality standard, administrative standard, and as a whole. The administrators of large schools also showed higher degree of administrative performance than those of small schools in the aspect of teaching and learning standard. Finally, school administrators suggested that (a) sufficient budget support should be considered for the improvement of administrative performance in primary school quality standards, (b) primary school quality standards were set too high and were not appropriate for locality, (c) local community should be authorized to adjust the school standards according to their own perceptions, (d) staff should be trained continuously, and (e) there should be the involvement of all stakeholder for the improvement of school quality.