Relationships Between Power Usage Of School Administrators And Performance According To Professional Standards Of Teachers In School Under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8: Kanchanaburi Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study 1. the use of the school administrators’ power, 2. the teachers’ performance according to professional standards, and 3. the relationship between the use of the school administrators’ power and the teachers’ performance according to professional standards in schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 8, Kanchanaburi province. The sample group is cooperated from 28 schools as the respondents consisted of 28 school administrators, 112 supervisors, and 140 teachers, totaling 280 people. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire with a reliability value of .934. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient.

The findings were as follows: 1. The use of the school administrators’ power overall and in each aspect was at a high level. 2. The teachers’ performance according to professional standards overall and in each aspect was at a high level. 3. The use of the school administrators’ power overall related to the teachers’ performance according to professional standards at the statistical significance level of .01 with a low level of positive correlation (r = 0.244).