Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study and compare the status and the problems
concerning educational quality assurance under the Office of Chanthaburi Educational Service
Area I. The samples used in this study consisted of 138 administrators and 305 teachers. The tool
used in the study was a questionnaire of 40 items. The reliability was at 0.85. The statistics used
for data analysis in this research were percentage, mean ( X ), standard deviation (S.D.) and t-test.
The results of the research were as follow : 1) The state implementation of educational
quality assurance under the Office of Chanthaburi Educational Service Area I operational status
by the school administrators and teachers for the overall operations were at the high level for
every step. By school size, the small schools and large schools for the overall operating were at
the high level every step. And by the area of school, the schools in Muang district and outside the
city as a whole was operating at the high level for every step. 2) The problems concerning
educational quality assurance under the Office of Chanthaburi Educational Service Area I
operational status by both school administrators and teacher for overall operating were at low
level for every step. By school size, the small schools and large school were operating at low
level for every step. By the area of schools all schools in Muang district and outside the city for
the overall operating were at low level for every step. 3) The comparison the status of operation
of the educational quality assurance under the Office of Chanthaburi Educational Service Area I
between school administrators and teachers found that for the overall aspects were not statistically
significant. The comparison the area of the school found that the overall aspects were not
statistically significant different.