The Relationship between the Condition of the Creative Leadership of the School Administrators and the School Effectiveness under the Saraburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the level of creative leadership of school administrators, 2) to study school effectiveness, and 3) to study the relationship between creative leadership of school administrators and school effectiveness under Saraburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The sample group included 278 of school administrators and teachers under Saraburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 designed its sample size according to Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula using a stratified random sampling method. The research equipment was a checklist questionnaire with a 5-level option rating scale. The reliability was 0.90 and the validity (IOC) was between 0.80 - 1.00. The statistical methods used in the research were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation,  and Pearson's correlation.   The results showed that: 1) the creative leadership of school administrators under Saraburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 consisted of; (1) vision, (2) imagination, (3) flexibility, (4) innovation and technology, and (5) creativity were at a high level in all aspects. 2) the school effectiveness as a whole was at a high level in all aspects, considering each aspect from the highest to the lowest - the ability to adjust and develop educational institutions, the ability to produce high standard students, the ability to solve problems within educational institutions, and the ability to improve positive attitude for students. 3) the relationship between creative leadership of school administrators and school effectiveness was high statistically correlated in the positive direction and significant at the .01 (r = 0.92)