Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to investigate problems, sugestion in solving problems and to compare the problems of the community services of the secondary schools in the provinces within and outside the Eastern Seaboard Development Project area classified by localities and school sizes. It was expected that these data would be useful in solving problems of community services in the aspects of the education, economy and vocation, comminity activity participation, and ground and building.Using stratified random sampling technique, the total number of 165 samples were selected. The research instruments using in this study were the fifty item five-levels rating-scale questionnaire, the twileve item checklist form and four item open-ended question form prepared by the researcher. The reliability of the questionnaire was found of being at 0.98. The discrimination value was found of being between 0.66-0.91. The statistics used in analyzing the data were arithmetic mean, styandard deviation, percentage and two-way analysis of variance.The results were as follows:The problems of the community services of the secondaty schools within and outside the Eastern Seaboard Development Project area were found of being at the moderate level. When classified by school sites and sizes, the problems in every aspect of the secondary schools within the Eastern Seaboard Development Project area was found of being at the moderate level except for the problems of economec and vocational services which were found of being at the low level.On the other hand, the problems of community activity participation services of the secondary schools outside the Eastern Weaboard Development Project area were found of being at the high level but in the other aspects they were found of being at the moderate level. When classified by school sizes, the problems of every aspect in the large-sized schools, middle-sized schools and small-sized school were found of being at the moderate level.Comparing the problems of the community services ot ethe secondaty schools within and outside the Eastern Seaboard Development Project area, the results revealed that; the problems of the community services of the schools located in different areas were significantly different at .05 level in every aspect. But economic and vocational services of different size of schools were singificantly different at .05 level. However Significant different was not found in the other aspects. The interaction between school siteds and sizes was found corporately affecting the economic and vocational problems and school building and facility service affected with significant diferent of .05. But for other aspects, they did not affect each other.Ths sugestions in solving problems were as follows:Budget should be allocated sufficiently for Educational services. Sending personnel to be trained and to participate in seminars should be concerning efectively organized in order that personness are informed of new informations vocational development in the economic and vocational services. Sufficient budget should also be allocated for the community activity particpation services and also for ground and building construction and maintenance and the purchase of school materials.