Professional management of the school administrators in Muenag District Chiangmai Province under the Office of Special Education Administration office of the Basic education Commission

Abstract

        This research aims to study and compare the professional management of the school administrators in the area of Muenag District Chiangmai Province under the Office of Special Education Administration of the Basic education Commission. The scope of the professional management of the school administrators in the area of Muenag District Chiangmai Province under the Office of Special Education Administration of the Basic education Commission including the aspects as follows: 1. Academic administration aspect, 2. Budget management aspect, 3. Personnel management aspect, 4. Administration of student affairs aspect, 5. Educational quality assurance aspect, 6. Public relations and community relations aspect, 7. Information technology management aspect, 8. Educational research aspect, and 9. Moral and ethics aspect. The population and samples were 98 teachers and educational personnel from 6 primary schools in the area of Muenag District Chiangmai Province under the Office of Special Education Administration of the Basic education Commission. The samples were selected using nonprobability sampling as well as purposive sampling method. It is necessary to voluntarily provide the research information as the information is important. The research results showed that the respondents were 65 females (66.30%), and 33 males (33.70%). 84 of them worked as teachers (85.70%), and 14 of them worked as educational personnel (14.30%). The age of the respondents were under 30 years old for 38 people (38.80%), age between 31-40 years old for 41 people (41.80%), age between 41-50 years old for 14 people (14.30%), and age between 51-60 years old for 5 people (5.10%). The education level of the respondents, 57 people were master’s degree (58.20%), and 41 people were bachelor’s degree (41.80%). 49 respondents had less than 10 years’ work experience (50%), 43 respondents had 11-20 years’ work experience (43.90%), and 6 respondents had more than 21 years’ work experience (6.10). The level of opinions on the analysis of the professional management of the school administrators in the area of Muenag District Chiangmai Province under the Office of Special Education Administration of the Basic education Commission in overall was at the highest level with the mean of 4.57. When considered in each aspect, it was found that the area with the highest mean was moral and ethics aspect with the mean of 4.71. Followed by personnel management aspect, administration of student affairs aspect, information technology management aspect, academic administration aspect, budget management aspect, educational research aspect, and educational quality assurance aspect, with the means of 4.70, 4.64, 4.53,4.50, 4.38, 4.38, and 4.32, respectively. The aspect with the lowest mean was public relations and community relation aspect, with the mean of 4.23. They hypothesis testing found that the characteristics of the respondents that were different ingender, age, education and work experience reflected the different mean level of the professional management of the school administrators in the area of Muenag District Chiangmai Province under the Office of Special Education Administration of the Basic education Commission at a significance level of 0.05.