The Guidelines for Development of Multipliers Leadership of School Administrators under the Office of Udon thani Primary Educational Service Area

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the actual states, the expected states, and the needs, 2) to find the guidelines, and 3) to assess the development of multipliers leadership’s guidelines of the school administrators under the Office of Udon Thani Primary Educational Service Area. The research process was divided in to 3 phases. For the 1^st phase, the samples were 244 school administrators under the Office of Udon Thani Primary Educational Service Area, obtained through stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire with the reliability of  the actual state of 0.98 and the expectation of 0.99. The data were analysed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and modified priority needs index (PNI). For the 2^nd phase, the data was collected through semi-structured interview by nine interviewees selected by purposive sampling technique. Content analysis was employed to explain the information. For the 3^rd phase, five experts obtained by purposive sampling technique assessed the information in terms of utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. The data was analyzed by means and standard deviation.
The results were as follows: 1) the actual state of multipliers leadership of school administrators under the Office of Udon Thani Primary Educational Service Area was at high level, the expected state was at the highest level, and the needs in order were - attracting and optimizing talent, decision making by debate, creating intensity, increasing the challenge, and ownership and accountability respectively, 2) the guidelines for development of multipliers leadership of school administrators consisted of five aspects, and 25 guidelines, 3) the guidelines for development of multipliers leadership of school administrators were evaluated at the highest level in terms of utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy.