THE ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP OF SECONDARY EXECUTIVES UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA 3, NONTHABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

The objectives of this research aimed 1) to study the level of the academic leadership of school executives, 2) to compare the academic l leadership of school executives classified by school sizes and 3) the guideline on the development of the academic leadership of school executives under the Office Area 3, Nonthaburi Province. It was a survey research. The sample groups used in this research were 340 teachers that collected through stratified random sampling method specified by school sizes and 6 educational experts. The tools of this research were 5–points Likert scale questionnaire with reliability of 0.967. Data was analyzed and processed by statistical package program. Statistical processes used for data analysis were mean, standard deviation, analysis of variance which specified the statistical significance value at 0.05. In term of the interview form used content analysis.

The results of this research were found that 1) the overall aspect of academic leadership of school executives were at high level, the highest one was teaching profession development, educational management and educational atmosphere encouragement respectively, 2) the teacher’s opinions in different school sizes had different opinions about Instructional leadership of school executives in overall aspects on sharing goals, curriculum management and educational management with the statistical significance value were at 0.05 in which the academic leadership of school executives of small and medium school sizes were higher than the school executives in extra-large school size and 3) the guideline on the development of academic leadership of school executives consisted of the policies on the development of participate management and the improvement of professional standard. This research had got the knowledge about characteristics of teaching profession development, educational management and educational atmosphere encouragement which were the important factors of the academic leadership of school executives and would lead to the sustainable effective organizational development in the future.