The Necessity of the Academic Collaboration Network Administration of Primary Schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission in the Northeastern Region

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to; 1) study the current and desirable conditions of the administration of the academic collaboration network of primary schools, 2) study the necessity of the administration of the academic collaboration network of primary schools. Under the Office of the Basic Education Commission in the northeast There are four steps of research methodology: step 1, analysis and synthesis of documents, concepts, theories and research, step 2, interview with 9 experts, step 3, multi-case study 3 networks of academic collaboration in primary schools with academic excellence performance by interview school administrators and academic supervisors and step 4, study the necessity. This research is a quantitative research. The population used in the study was 24,480 people. The sample consisted of school directors and academic supervisors totally 420 which was obtained by multi-stage sampling. The instrument used was a 5 - level rating scale questionnaire with the Index of item objective congruence (IOC) between 0.80-1.00, discrimination power between 0.46-0.93, and the overall reliability value at 0.98. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and PNImodified.
The research results were as follows:
1. The current state of the administration of academic collaboration network of primary schools overall, it is moderate. And overall desirable conditions were at a high level.
2. The necessity of the administration of collaboration network of primary schools under the office of the basic education commission in the northeast overall, it is moderate. In order of need, they are: network vision determination (PNImodified = 0.359), network performance evaluation and improvement (PNImodified = 0.348), network organization and organization collaboration (PNImodified = 0.340). Knowledge exchange and communication (PNImodified = 0.333), network strategic plan development (PNImodified = 0.329), network member participation (PNImodified = 0.327), and awareness of the need to Create a network (PNImodified = 0.316), respectively.