Digital Leadership of Administrators and Characteristics of World-Class Standard School under the Secondary Education Service Area Office Ratchaburi

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to determine 1) the school administrator's digital leadership under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi 2) characteristics of World Class standard school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi 3) the relationship between the school administrator's digital leadership and the characteristics of World Class standard school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi. The sample of this research consisted of 24 schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi with 4 respondents per school: 1) a school director 2) an academic deputy director 3) 2 teachers from World Class standard school committee. The research instrument was questionnaire about the school administrator's digital leadership, based on the concept of Sheninger and characteristics of World Class standard school. The statistical analysis was frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient. The results of this research were as follow: 1) The school administrator's digital leadership the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi, as a whole and each aspect were the highest level; ranking from the highest to the lowest mean: student engagement, learning, and outcomes, innovative learning spaces and environments, branding, opportunity, public relations, professional learning & growth and communication. 2) The characteristics of World Class Standard school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi as almost and each aspect were a high level; ranking from the highest to the lowest mean: teaching methods correlate to World Class Standard, learners’ abilities as world’s citizen and quality system management 3) The school administrator's digital leadership and the characteristics of World Class Standard school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ratchaburi were moderate correlation with the .01 level of statistical significance.