Learning Leadership of School Administrators Affecting Quality Culture of Schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area Office Sakon Nakhon

Abstract

The objective of this research was to examine the Learning Leadership of school administrators affecting the quality culture of schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Sakon Nakhon. The sample group consisted of 333 participants of school administrators and teachers, who were selected using stratified random sampling. The instrument used in data collection was a set of 5 rating scale questionnaires, which contained a part that contained questions about the learning leadership of school administrators, indicated validity index ranged between 0.80 - 1.00, discrimination power index ranged between
0.61 - 0.89, and the reliability index was at 0.98. and another part comprised questions about the quality culture of schools indicated validity index ranged between 0.80 - 1.00, discrimination power index ranged between 0.70 - 0.86, and reliability index was at 0.97. Statistics used in data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and stepwise multivariate regression analysis. The findings were as follows: 1. The learning leadership of school administrators, overall, was at the highest level. 2. The quality culture of schools, overall, was at the highest level. 3. The learning leadership of school administrators and the quality culture of schools showed positive correlation with statistical significance at .01. There was a high positive correlation between the learning leadership of school administrators and the quality culture of schools at high level with statistical significance at .01. 4. The learning leadership of school administrators showed 3 variables that could predict The quality culture of schools, namely 1) self-directed learning (X₆) 2) information technology implementation (X₄) 3) creativity (X₂) with statistical significance at .01, which predicted at 71.70 percent, and could be written in the form of the equation as follows: predicting equation in raw scores  = .591 + .435(X₆) + .289(X₄) +.149(X₂), predicting equation in standardized scores, y = .483(Z₆) + .301(Z₄) +.156(Z₂), and 5. The guidelines of the learning leadership of school administrators that affected to the quality culture of schools comprised 3 components, namely self-directed learning, information technology implementation and creativity, which consists of 8 objectives and 24 development guidelines The evaluation results show that the development guidelines were appropriate, in overall, was at the highest level. And the possibility, overall, was at the highest level.