School based Management Strategy of Secondary Schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office

Abstract

                 The research entitled, “School based Management Strategy of Secondary Schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office Service Area 23 Office,” aimed 1) to study the school based managementstate of secondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office, 2) to create theschool based management strategy for the secondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office,and 3) to evaluate the school based management strategy for the secondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office.

                  The samples used in the first period of this research were 322 civil servant-teachers, who were teaching in thesecondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office in the academic year of 2014. While in the second period of this research, the 9 informants were invited to participate in a focus group discussion. And in last period, the 20 experts were invited to be as the informants for evaluation.

                 The instruments used in this research were the questionnaire, focus group discussion, and the evaluation by the experts. In the quality test, the only items of questionnaire with above .50 value of the IOC were acceptable, and in the reliability test, Cronbach’s alpha value was rated at .98. The statistics used for quantitative data analysis in this research were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. In addition, the content analysis was employed for the qualitative data which were concluded from the experts’ suggestions.

                The research findings revealed that

1. The level of school based management of the secondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office overall were at high level. Especially, the decentralization aspect was at the highest level; the self-administrationaspect wasat the lower level, and the lowest level was the participation aspect.
2. The school based management strategy for the secondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Office consisted of 2 variables that were relevant to each other, i.e. the 6step-school based management strategy and the 6 school based managment principles.
3. The results of evaluation for the school based management strategy for the secondary schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area 23 Officeoverall were at the highest level, while each aspect was found at the highest level as well.