A Casual Relationship Model of Selected Factors Affecting Effectiveness of Secondary Schools in the Northeastern Part of Thailand

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study selected factors affecting the effectiveness of secondary schools in the Northeast, 2) to examine the causal relationship between the developed model of selected factors affecting the effectiveness of secondary schools In the Northeast with the empirical data, and 3) to obtain guidelines for developing the selected factors that affected the effectiveness of secondary schools in the Northeast. The sample consisted of 640 secondary schools in the Northeast under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, academic year 2018. The research methodology were divided into 3 phases: Phase 1 construct the hypothesis model, Phase 2 examine tool validation, Phase 3, discover the guidelines for developing selected factors. The tools used for data collection were a questionnaire and an interview form. Statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, Pearson's coefficient and the analysis of structural equation modeling. The research found that 1) The constructed causal relationship model of selected factors affecting the effectiveness of secondary schools in the Northeast consisted of casual variables including; transcendental leadership, organizational culture, learning process management and the innovative organization 2) The constructed causal relationship model of selected factors affecting the effectiveness of secondary schools in the Northeast, the model was congruent with the empirical data. 3) Guidelines for development of selected factors that preform direct effect were as follows: (1) transcendental leadership, (2) learning process management and (3) innovative organization and a selected factor that contained direct and indirect effects is the organizational culture.