The Development of Academic Leadership Skill Training Package for Teachers in Basic Education Schools
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The purposes of this research are: 1) to develop an effective academic leadership skill training package for teachers in basic education schools, and 2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the academic leadership skill training package for teachers in basic education schools. The population chosen with the cluster sampling method included 24 teachers at Khao Wittayakarn School under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 27. The research tools consisted of: 1) seven sets of academic leadership skill training package, 2) suitability evaluation form of the academic leadership skill training package which was a five-point rating scale evaluation form divided into two parts, firstly sentiment level and secondly evaluation of the consistency of the curriculum, 3) academic leadership evaluation forms which included self-evaluation and peer-evaluation forms with 20 questions per form, 4) performance of the activities evaluation forms for individual and group activities, and 5) satisfaction survey form which contained five-point rating scale and open-ended questions for additional suggestions parts. As for statistical tools, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test were used to evaluate the results before and after the training (dependent samples).
The results are as the following:1) The academic leadership skill training package for teachers in basic education schools consisted of seven units, with 21 hours of training period. The suitability of the training package, categorized into elements, showed overall value at high ( = 4.28), and suitability of the training package, divided into items, had overall value at high (
= 4.08) 2) After using of the academic leadership skill training package for teachers in basic education schools, the results were as follows: 1) The evaluation of academic leadership of teachers in basic education schools done by their supervisors and peer teachers gave high value (
= 4.52) before the training, and there was a significant increase of the value after the training at .05. 2) From the satisfaction survey on the academic leadership skill training package done by participants, overall value considering by aspects, was at high (
= 4.24), and overall value considering by items, was at high ( = 4.24). and 3) The evaluation for overall performance during the activities of the academic leadership skill training session was high (
= 4.40).
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