Ethical behaviors of school administrators affecting the administrative quality of the buddhist way schools under the secondary educational service area office 9
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to study the levels of the ethical behaviors of the
school administrators classified by school size, 2) to study the levels of the administrative quality of
the Buddhist way schools classified by school size, and 3) to study the ethical behaviors of school
administrators affecting the administrative quality of the Buddhist way schools.
The samples were 280 school administrators and teachers under the Secondary Educational
Service Area Office 9. The participants were selected through the G*power and classified by school
size. The research instrument was a 5-level rating scale questionnaire consisted of sixty items on
ethical behaviors of the school administrators and the administrative quality of the Buddhist way
schools. The reliability values of the questionnaire were 0.962 and 0.968, respectively. The data
were statistically analyzed by using percentage (%), arithmetic mean ( ), standard deviation (S.D.),
correlation analysis, and the multiple regression.
The results revealed as follows: 1) The ethical behaviors of the school administrators as a
whole and in each particular aspect were at a high level. 2) The administrative quality of the
Buddhist way schools as a whole and in each particular aspect were at a high level. 3) The ethical
behaviors of school administrators affecting the administrative quality of the Buddhist way school
were working ethical behaviors, management ethical behaviors and personal ethical behaviors,
respectively. These ethical behaviors could predict the administrative quality of the Buddhist way
schools by 42.10%.