Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to study the current and expected teachers perception
towards the student care system. 2) to assess the teachers needs towards the student care
system; and 3) to compare the teachers need towards the student care system under the
secondary educational service area office 6, classified by school size. The 362 teacher samples
were selected by multi - stage sampling. The rating-scale questionnaire was used as a tool
with its confidence of current teachers perception at 0.976 and expected one at 0.989.
The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and modified priority needs index
(PNIModified) and One-Way ANOVA as well as the Scheffes test. The results of research
revealed that 1) current perception of teacher had the high level of the small school (X = 4.07,
S.D. = 0.83), the medium school (X = 3.81, S.D. = 0.58), the large school (X = 4.04, S.D. = 0.56)
and at the highest level of expected perception, the small school (X = 4.57, S.D. = 0.53),
the medium school (X = 4.67, S.D.= 0.36), the large school (X = 4.58, S.D. = 0.49).
2) The results also showed that the highest dimension for the teachers of small schools
included the administration and supervising and monitoring, the operation dimension for
the teachers of medium schools, and the dimension of administration for the teachers large
school. 3) The teachers in different school sizes have different opinions on the need
assessment towards the student care system at 0.05 level.