School Factors Affecting Life Skills of the Secondary Students under the Chachoengsao Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) study opinions of teachers and school administrators toward the life skills of the secondary students, 2) study opinions of teachers and school administrators for school factors affecting the life skill of the secondary students, and 3) study the school factors affecting the life skill of the secondary students. The samples were 275 teachers and school administrators of 38 schools under the Chachoengsao Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, obtained through multi-stage sampling technique. The research instrument was 39 items of 5-point rating scale with the index of item-objective congruence (IOC) between 0.80-1.00, and the index of reliability between 0.73-0.95. The statistical methodology used for data analysis consisted of means, standard deviation, and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis, variables without any problems of multicollinearity.

          The research findings were as follows: 1) The opinions of teachers and school administrators toward the life skill of secondary students overall were at high level. 2) The opinions of teachers and school administrators for school factor affecting life skill of the secondary students were at high level. And 3) the school factors affecting life skills of the secondary students were at high level with the significance of 0.05, consisting of: the factor of school environment (X₁), the factor of student associated treatment (X₃) , the factor of curriculum management and teaching and learning activity (X₅), and the factor of academic resources (X₆). Besides, the percentage of the life skills’s forecast of the secondary students in the Chachoengsao Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 was 37.30.