Participatory Administration Affecting the School Operation according to Educational Standards in Prachinburi Province under SecondaryEducational Service Area Office, Prachinburi, Nakhon Nayok
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study: 1) levels of participatory administration in schools; 2) levels of school operation according to educational standards; 3) relationship between participatory administration and school operation according to educational standards; and 4) participatory administration affecting school operation according to educational standards in Prachinburi province under secondary educational service area office, Prachinburi, Nakhon Nayok. The sample consisted of 261 administrators and teachers. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Statistics for data analysis were mean, Standard Deviation, Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. It was found that: 1) The overall level of participatory administration was in a high level with mean scores ranking from high to low as follows: collaboration in determining the objective and goal, decentralization, trustworthiness, participation in decision making, and communication for exchanging information. 2) The overall level of school operation according to educational standards was in a high level with mean scores ranking from high to low as follows: student quality, student-centered instructional process and management and management process. 3) There was a substantial positive correlation (rxy =.651) between participatory administration and school operation according to educational standards, with a statistical significance of .01. 4) Participatory administration in terms of decentralization, collaboration in determining the objective and goal, and participation in decision making affected the school operation according to educational standards in Prachinburi province under secondary education service area office, Prachinburi, Nakhon Nayok, with a statistical significance of .05. They could be used to predict the student quality at 46.1 percent. The predictive equation could be written in form of standard scores as as Z ́y = .305(Z5) + .211(Z4) + .204(Z1