The Administration Guidelines Based on Balanced Scorecard of Samakkeepattana School

Abstract

                   The aims of this study were to examine the administration circumstance of Samakkeepattana School by using balanced scorecard framework, to investigate external factors affecting the administration of Samakkeepattana School, and to develop the administration guidelines for Samakkeepattana School by using balanced scorecard framework. The study employed Kaplan and Norton (2000: Unpaged) and Balance Scorecard frameworks for analyzing the current administration circumstance of Samakkeepattana School, internal and external factors affecting the balanced scorecard-oriented administration of Samakkeepattana School aiming to achieve the intended goals, equality, meeting with the school’s context, corresponding to the needs of students, community, society and the country. The results showed that:

                   The administration guidelines for Samakkeepattana School by using balanced scorecard deployed quantitative approach using questionnaire for data collection. The population recruited 35 participants including administrators, teachers and educational personnel from Samakkeewaittaya School. The data was statistically analyzed by the statistics software. The current administration circumstance was reviewed within the perspective of balanced scorecard involving the 4-aspect administration i.e. (1) Learning and Growing (2) Internal Process (3) Learner (4) Finance. The current administration circumstance, in overall, was rated at the moderate level. The external factors affecting the balanced scorecard-oriented administration of Samakkeewittaya School were rated at the moderate level.
The level of influence from high to low were politics, technology, socio-cultural, and economic. The administration guidelines based on balanced scorecard for Samakkeewittaya School required the implementation for the overall aspects i.e. learning and growing, internal process, learner, and finance. The balanced scorecard-oriented administration could offer awareness raising for the staff in developing knowledge, skills, process congruent with the needs of the school, building morale support, creative thinking for the staff, and empowering better learning capacity for the learners.