Relationship Between Information Technology Competency and Information System Administration of School Administrators under the Office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area

Abstract

            The objectives of this research were to study: 1) levels of information technology competency of school administrators under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area, 2) levels of information system administration of school administrators under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area, and 3) the relationship between information technology competency and information system administration of school administrators under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area.  This descriptive research was used for 201 schools under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area as a unit of analysis by proportional stratified random sampling.   The office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area was stratified into the division; then the desired number of samples was drawn lots in each stratification.  Key informants were 804 teachers of four schools each.   Instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire.  Data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Person's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient.

           The research findings were as follows: 1) the levels of information system administration of school administrators under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area were overall at a high level.   When considering each aspect, it was found that three aspects were at the high levels, ranking by the average from high to low were as follows: attitude, knowledge, and skills, respectively; 2) the levels of information system administration of school administrators under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area were overall at a high level.  When considering each aspect, it was found that all four aspects were at the high levels, ranking by the average from high to low were as follows:  implementation, input factors, processing, and information product, respectively; and 3) as regards between the information technology competency and information system administration of school administrators under the office of Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area, the statistically significant relationship were at the level of .01 in both overall and each aspect.