Factors Affecting the Academic Administration of Private Secondary Schools in Chiangrai Province

Abstract

The research aims to study factors affect the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province. The objectives are as follows: to study the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province; : 1) to study the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province; 2) to study the factors that affect the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province; 3) To study the relationship between these factors; 4) to create an equation to forecast the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province.

The populations of this study comprise 373 high school teachers of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai. The samples used in this study comprise 190 high school teachers of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai through the use of proportion and simple samplings. The tools used in the study were; a set of questionnaire related to the factors of academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province with a reliability at 0.86, a set of questionnaire related to the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province with 0.93 reliability. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, average, Standard Deviation. Pearson Correlation Coefficient, and multiple regression analysis.     The results showed that:

1. In a big picture, the overall of the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province was high. Considering each aspect average score, it showed that the highest average aspect was learning outcomes measurement, assessment, and grades transfer. Measurement, evaluation and transfer results. The second highest average point was the development of the school curriculum while the lowest issue was the development of materials, innovations, educational technologies.
2. Factors in academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province, in general, the average were all at high level. The highest average was the factor of the school administrators, then the teachers, and the lowest was the guardians and community.

3. The Correlation these factors academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province which all factors connected with academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province in positive way with statistic significant at .01

4. The equations were created as the predictors of factors affect the academic administration of private secondary schools in Chiang Rai Province. The results projected that there were 3 factors which worked best as forecasting variables were the factors of instructors, educational technologies, and guardians and community. The predicting equation constant was 0.09 for the raw score with a predictive power at 65 percent with a significant level of .01 while the equations were as follow,  Predictor quation of the raw score  Ŷ = .90 + .41X₅ + .27X₂ + .13X₆.  Predictor Equation of the standard score  Ẑ = .48X₅ + .28X₂ + .16X₆