DEVELOPMENT OF EMPOWERMENT INNOVATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR UNDER THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA PATHUMTHANI
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Abstract
The article aims to 1) Investigate the issues and identify the empowerment needs of school administrators affiliated with the Pathum Thani Educational Service Area Office for Secondary Education. 2) Develop empowerment innovations. 3) Pilot test these innovations. 4) Evaluate the pilot implementation using action research and development methodology.
The study sample includes school administrators and teachers from schools under the Pathum Thani Educational Service Area Office for Secondary Education, involving 331 participants for quantitative research and 18 for qualitative research. The evaluation sample includes 12 qualified evaluators. Research tools used were innovations in school administrator empowerment and satisfaction assessments. Data analysis employed basic statistics, hypothesis testing, content analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis.
Key findings include 1) Overall, school administrators' empowerment practices within the Pathum Thani Educational Service Area Office for Secondary Education are rated as high. 2) Strategies for enhancing school administrators' empowerment include five crucial aspects: motivation enhancement, cooperation promotion and development, work environment creation, leadership creation for practitioners, and team building. 3) Overall satisfaction with the empowerment innovation implementation among school administrators is high. 4) The evaluation results of the innovation revealed that the quality of the innovation in terms of suitability, accuracy, feasibility, and usefulness is at a high level in all four aspects.
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