Guidelines of School Administration which Affect Reducing Teacher Workload from the Perception of Secondary School Teachers in Samut Songkhram Province under the Secondary Education Service Area, Samut Sakhon - Samut Songkhram

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study and compare the guidelines of school administration which affect reducing teacher workload from the perception of secondary school teachers in Samut Songkhram secondary school. The research populations were classified by educational background, school size, and work experience. They consisted of 421 teachers and 196 of them were samples selected by stratified random sampling. This research instrument was a questionnaire about guidelines of school administration which affected reducing teacher workload with 47 items. The content validity (IOC) was 0.5 – 1.00 and 0.96, respectively. The statistics were used percentage, mean, standard deviation, test (t -test) and F-test. Comparison of average score differences in pairs using Scheffe's method.

The results showed that

1. The teachers’ opinions about the guidelines of school administration which affected reducing teacher workload from the perception of secondary school teachers in Samut Songkhram both overall and in each aspect were at a high level.


2. The comparison of the opinion of teachers who were classified by different educational backgrounds, about the guidelines of school administration which affected reducing teacher workload both overall and in each aspect were not different. The opinion of teachers who work in small – medium school sizes about the guidelines of school administration which affected reducing teacher workload was higher than the opinion of teachers who worked in large – extra schools. However, the policy and plan aspects were not different. The opinion of teachers who had worked over 10 years about guidelines of school administration which affected reducing teacher workload in integration aspect was more than the opinion of teachers who had worked less than 5 years.