School Administrators’ Competency Affecting Academic Administration of Schools Under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office in Nakhon Pathom

Abstract

This research aimed to study 1) the level of the administrators’ competency; 2) the level of the academic administration; and 3) the school administrators’ competency affecting the academic administration of schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office in Nakhon Pathom Province. The sample consisted of 315 administrators and teachers from schools administered by the Secondary Educational Service Area Office in Nakhon Pathom, selected using stratified sampling as distributed by educational school size. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Data were analyzed by determining percentage, mean, standard deviation. and stepwise multiple regression.

The findings were as follows: 1) The overall and individual levels of the administrators’ competency were high, which consisted of self-development, personnel potential development, analysis and synthesis, communication and motivation, team work, vision, good service, and achievement-oriented. 2) The overall and individual levels of academic administration were high, which included teaching and learning management, educational supervision, assessment and evaluation, educational quality improvement research, educational curriculum development, and the development of educational media, innovation, and technology. 3) The school administrators’ competency, which was comprised of self-development, good service, analysis and synthesis, and vision, affected the academic administration of schools with a predictive power of 85.40 at the statistically significant level of 0.5.