The Relationship between the Roles of School Administrator and Participation in Educational Administration of Parent-Teacher Association at Secondary Schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8
Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study 1) the roles of school administrator at secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8 2) the participation in educational administration of Parent-Teacher
Association at secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8 and 3) the relationship between the roles of school administrator and the participation in educational administration of Parent-Teacher Association at secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8. The samples of this research were 48 secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8. The total 192 respondents selected from each school director, president of the parent teacher association, the secretary of the parent teacher association and teacher from each school. The instrument was a questionnaire based on the frameworks of school administrators roles and participation in educational administration of Parent-Teacher Association. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient analysis.
The research finding revealed as follows: 1) the roles of school administrator at secondary schools under the
Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8 was at high level in overall view and in each aspect by facility (being facilited) and so do the promoter, evaluator, predictor, and counselor respectively, 2) the participation in educational
administration of Parent-Teacher Association at secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area
Office 8 was at moderate level in overall view and in each aspect by resources support, networking unit, organizational
climate, members participation, relationship between schools and communities, and evaluation respectively, and
3) the relationship between the roles of school administrator and participation in educational administration of
Parent-Teacher Association at secondary schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8 were average correlation at the level of .01 significance.