A STUDY OF FACTORS OF TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE BASIC EDUCATION COMMISSION, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study factors of technological leadership and to  confirm the congruence with the empirical data of theoretical model of technological leadership of  secondary  school  principals  under  the  Office  of  the Basic  Education  Commission,  Ministry  of  Education.  The research methodology consisted of 3 phases.  The first phase was the synthesis of principles and theories and the interviews of 5 specialists.  The second phase was the use of Delphi technique process involving 21 specialists.  The third phase was the use of a questionnaire to collect quantitative data from 1,350 school principals and using confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the congruence of theoretical model of technological leadership of school principals.  The employed research instruments were an interview structure, a questionnaire for use in the three rounds of Delphi technique, and a rating scale questionnaire for use in collecting empirical data from secondary school principals.  The employed statistics for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation, median, inter-quartile range, and confirmatory factor analysis.  The AMOS computer program was used for data processing.  The research results were as follows:

1. 1. Technological leadership of secondary school principals under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Ministry of Education consisted of 7 factors, namely, (1) having knowledge of information technology; (2) using information technology in instructional activities; (3) using information technology in school administration; (4) encouraging and supporting the use of information technology in management and instruction; (5) using information technology in evaluation and measurement; (6) commitment to information technology ethics in the use of information technology; and (7) changing the use of information technology to cope with changing situations.
   2. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicated  that  the  theoretical  model derived from the Delphi technique was congruous with the empirical data with  value  of  272.448  with  probability  value  of  0.000  and  degree of freedom = 92,  CMIN/DF = 2.961,  RMSEA = 0.038,  GFI = 0.982,  AGFI = 0.954,  NFI = 0.994,  CFI = 0.996.  These results implied that the model of technological leadership of secondary school principals under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Ministry of Education, developed by the researcher, had construct validity and conform to the empirical data.