ROLES OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND INNOVATOR CHARACTERISTICS OF TEACHERS UNDER THE NAKHON NAYOK PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study: 1) the level of school
administrators’ roles, 2) the level of teachers’ innovator characteristics, and 3) the relationship between roles of school administrators and innovator characteristics of teacher under the Nakhon Nayok Primary Educational Service Area office. The sample group of this research consisted of 316 teachers under the Nakhon Nayok Primary Educational Service Area Office who were selected through stratified random sampling method by district and simple random sampling based on the population proportion in each district. The research instrument for data collection was a 5-level rating scale questionnaire with the reliability coefficient of 0.977. The statistical used for data analysis included mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient.

The research results revealed that: 1) the overall level of school administrators’ roles was at a high level ( = 4.28, SD. = 0.62). Promoting was rated at the highest average ( 4.37, SD = 0.57) whereas decision making and problem solving was rated at the lowest average ( 4.19, SD. = 0.79). 2) The overall level of teachers’ innovator characteristics was at a high level ( 4.34, SD. = 0.45). The networking was rated at the highest average ( = 4.43, SD. = 0.50) whereas questioning was rated at the lowest average ( = 4.29, SD. = 0.53). 3) There was a high positive correlation (r = 0.649) between school administrators’ roles and teachers’ innovator characteristics under the Nakhon Nayok Primary Educational Service Area office with statistical significance at the .01 level.