The development model to promote the success of educational administrators of colleges under the supervision of the office of Vocational Education Commission
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) To design and construct a development model for
college under the supervision of the Office of Vocational Education Commission (OVEC), and 2)
To develop handbooks for the administrators for college management.
Three groups of population involving in this research were 7 experts, 72 administrators and
teachers from vocational colleges that received the royal education awards during 2549-2551 BE.
To obtain data from the experts, the questionnaire in the from of 5 rating scales and open
ended were employed. The data included the aspects of successful leadership, budget management,
human resource management, academic administrative work, and the general management which
were calculated to find mean and standard deviation.
The evaluation by the experts revealed that they agreed to construct the handbook consist
of Resource management Division of Student Affairs Department of Planning and Cooperation
Academic Affairs and Leadership of management education for college management as a
guideline for the vocational college administrators. After analyzing data from the administrator
questionnaire, it was found that the administrators performed all items listed in the questionnaire
and rated in high level. The results also showed that the teacher reported high level on the
behavior of the administrators leadership in the royal award winning year. They also reported
that the leadership of the administrators was required in a high level. Moreover, according to the
aspect of ethics and morality, the teachers reported that they expected the school administrators to
possess these qualities in high level.
The development model was tried with 4 colleges under the supervision of OVEC;
Suranaree Technical College, Chumpuang Industrial and Community College, NakornRatchasima
College of Agriculture and Technology, and Buriram Poly-technique College in the semester of
2/2553. Before the trial, there was a training on the usage of the development model for the
administrators and the directors of the 4 colleges. The overall results showed that the handbook
for managing the vocational institutes was suitable and practical with very high level. The results
showed that after using the development model, Suranaree Technical College gained increasing
operation outcomes on SAR from 23 to 32 indicators or 71.88%. Chumpuang Industrial and
Community College has increased the SAR operation outcomes from 24 to 43 indicators or 55.81%.
The SAR operation outcome of NakornRatchasima College of Agriculture and Technology has
increased from 12 to 33 indicators or 36.36%. The SAR operation outcome of Buriram Polytechnique
College has increased from 20 to 57 indicators or 35.09%. It can be concluded that
according to the results, the development model of the college administrators effects on the
success in managing educational institutes under the supervision of the Office of Vocational
Education Commission.