The Development of Indicators for the Administration According to the Four Noble Truths of Basic Education Schools, Nakhonchaiburin

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to; 1) develop the indicators for administration according to the Four Noble Truths, the very important Dhamma in Buddhism, in the basic education schools; and 2) monitor the construct validity and concurrent validity of factors and indicators for the basic education school’s administration according to the Four Noble Truths. The primary education schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) were employed as the samples. The participants in the study were 346 schools selected by the Table of Krejcie and Morgan. The determined samples were selected by the Table of Random Number. The tools for data collection were the questionnaires on the factors and indicators for the basic education school’s administration according to the Four Noble Truths which were a 5-point rating scale provided the Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) between 0.80-1.00, the discrimination values ranged between 0.23-0.80, and the reliability values at 0.92. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation (S.D.), coefficient of variation (C.V.), and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA); and found that: 1) The factors and indicators for the basic education school’s administration according to the Four Noble Truths were statistically significantly consistent with the empirical data (Chi-Square = 27.21, df = 55, ²/ df = 0.49, p-value = .99, GIF = 0.999 AGIF = 0.99, RMSER = 0.00, RMR = 0.01). 2) According to all 120 factors and indicators for the basic education school’s administration according to the Four Noble Truths, the concurrent validity was statistically significant at 0.1 level.