EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES OF AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGY COLLEGES FOR NORTHERN INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE TO BE EFFECTIVE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the condition of educational management, key factors that had important influence role towards educational management effectiveness and to suggest Educational Management of Agriculture and Technology Colleges. It used mixed methods research both qualitative and quantitative research. In qualitative, data were collected from self-assessment report (SAR) documents and interviews with administrators and teachers, analyze data used content analysis and SWOT analysis. In quantitative, data were collected from the sample by cluster random sampling amount 558 samples, analyze data used structural equation model (SEM) and Delphi technique for finding the consensus of educational management strategies. The research showed that;

1. The contexts of educational management of Agriculture and Technology College, in the field of student production, development of teachers and educational personnel were found that development of educational institutions and learning resources, and management. There were strong points, graduated students had good skills and desirable characteristics, teachers had knowledge and professional ethics, the school had developed curriculum with establishments to meet the needs of the labor market and the ASEAN community, and management was in accordance with the principles of corporate governance and the government’s guidelines were important. The weakness were, students lack language skills and out during semester, teacher attaches to the teaching and the traditional teaching content, equipment and teaching materials were not modern, old, budget was not enough, and each school had its own unique character.

2. Influence Factors the effectiveness of educational management were found that there were the leadership of the executives factors, organizational culture factors, information technology factor, and organizational communication factors. The relationship of structural equation model was consistent with the empirical data by Chi-Square was 78.52 at the Degree of Freedom was 98, p-value was 0.92615, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) was .000, Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) was .98 and Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) was .95

3. The Educational Management Guidelines were divided into 4 main strategies 29 secondary strategy, main strategy 1 : aims to develop student production in relation to the needs of the labor market in the ASEAN community, Main strategy 2 : Improve the quality and quantity of teachers and educational personnel in vocational education, Main strategy 3 : Develop quality of education and learning resources, and Main strategy 4 : Improve management quality.