Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to 1. study school culture factors, 2. study school effectiveness, and 3. study the school culture factors that affecting the effectiveness of schools under the Primary Educational Service Area Office. The sample used in this study consisted of 379 school administrators working under the Primary Educational Service Area Office in the 2015 academic year. The sample size was determined using Krejcie and Morgans sample size table, and the sample was randomly selected by the multi-stage random sampling method. The instrument used to collect the data was a 50 item five-point rating scale questionnaire created by the researcher. The instrument was assessed with content validity using the index of congruency: IOC which was between 0.80-1.00, the reliability using a-Cronbachs alpha coefficient was equal to 0.91. Percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Pearsons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and multiple regression analysis were all used to analyze the data. The summary of the findings were as follows: 1. The school culture factors of the school under the Primary Educational Service Area Office were the highest levels. When the result were considered as classified by aspect, 9 of them were rated at the highest level, whereas one was rated at a high level. The aspect with the highest rating was sense of community, followed by diversity, and the lowest was for school goals. 2. The overall level of school effectiveness of the school under the Primary Educational Service Area Office was the highest level. When the results were considered as classified by aspect, 9 of them were rated at the highest level, and one was rated at a high level. The aspect with the highest rating was efficiency of resource usability by the personnel working in the school, followed by overall operations to solve and prevent school personnel problems, and the lowest rating was for achievements of the personnel working in the school. 3. The school culture factors were in overall, as a whole and for each particular aspect, found to be positively correlated with school effectiveness at the 0.01 level of statistical significance. The aspects of empowerment (x2), diversity (x10), school goals (x1), decision making (x3), caring (x8), sense of community (x4), and quality (x6) could be used to predict school effectiveness with a power of prediction of 84.30 percent, as shown in the raw and standardized scores given by the following equations: = 0.012+0.219x2+0.187x10+0.190x1+0.059x3+0.175x8+0.100x 4+0.070x6 = 0.278x2+0.239x10+0.193x1+0.077x3+0.209x8+0.114x4+0.079x6
The objectives of this research were to 1. study school culture factors, 2. study school effectiveness, and 3. study the school culture factors that affecting the effectiveness of schools under the Primary Educational Service Area Office. The sample used in this study consisted of 379 school administrators working under the Primary Educational Service Area Office in the 2015 academic year. The sample size was determined using Krejcie and Morgans sample size table, and the sample was randomly selected by the multi-stage random sampling method. The instrument used to collect the data was a 50 item five-point rating scale questionnaire created by the researcher. The instrument was assessed with content validity using the index of congruency: IOC which was between 0.80-1.00, the reliability using a-Cronbachs alpha coefficient was equal to 0.91. Percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Pearsons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and multiple regression analysis were all used to analyze the data. The summary of the findings were as follows: 1. The school culture factors of the school under the Primary Educational Service Area Office were the highest levels. When the result were considered as classified by aspect, 9 of them were rated at the highest level, whereas one was rated at a high level. The aspect with the highest rating was sense of community, followed by diversity, and the lowest was for school goals. 2. The overall level of school effectiveness of the school under the Primary Educational Service Area Office was the highest level. When the results were considered as classified by aspect, 9 of them were rated at the highest level, and one was rated at a high level. The aspect with the highest rating was efficiency of resource usability by the personnel working in the school, followed by overall operations to solve and prevent school personnel problems, and the lowest rating was for achievements of the personnel working in the school. 3. The school culture factors were in overall, as a whole and for each particular aspect, found to be positively correlated with school effectiveness at the 0.01 level of statistical significance. The aspects of empowerment (x2), diversity (x10), school goals (x1), decision making (x3), caring (x8), sense of community (x4), and quality (x6) could be used to predict school effectiveness with a power of prediction of 84.30 percent, as shown in the raw and standardized scores given by the following equations: = 0.012+0.219x2+0.187x10+0.190x1+0.059x3+0.175x8+0.100x 4+0.070x6 = 0.278x2+0.239x10+0.193x1+0.077x3+0.209x8+0.114x4+0.079x6