Academic Administrative Guidelines in the New Normal Era of Private Schools in Nakhon Sawan Province under Office of the Private Education Commission

Abstract

This research article aimed to study the state of academic administration, to create guidelines and to assess for academic administrative guidelines in the new normal era of private schools in Nakhon Sawan Province. The sample group was the school directors, head of academic affairs and teachers, totaling 306 people. This was a descriptive research by using a simple random sampling. The tool used was a questionnaire on the condition of academic administration in the new normal era of private schools. It was an approximation scale of 5 levels of Likurt which had a reliability of 0.99. A discussion group was organized with 7 experts. The tool was a guideline draft and a group discussion recording form and the guideline assessment with a 5-level estimation scale of Likurt. The statistics used to analyze the data were mean and standard deviation. The results of the research showed that 1) the condition of academic administration in the new normal era of private schools, overall, was at a high level (=3.83, S.D.=0.10). The aspect with the highest mean of administrative conditions was the educational measurement and evaluation at a high level (=4.31, S.D.=0.19) and the aspect with the lowest mean of administrative conditions was supervision for education at a moderate level (=3.37, S.D.=0.26); 2) academic administrative guidelines in the new normal era of private schools in all 6 areas were: the directors should make policy and raise awareness among teachers about online teaching and learning management that focused on learners, prepare educational measurement and evaluation tools during the new normal era of teaching and learning, and organize a training course on the creation and development of technological media to be used in new teaching and learning management; and 3) assessment of guidelines for academic administration in the normal era of private schools, overall, was at a high level (=4.27, S.D.=0.07), on accuracy assessment results at a high level (=4.15, S.D.=0.21), on suitability at a high level (=4.37, S.D.=0.07), on the possibility at a high level (=4.12, S.D.=0.05) and in terms of usefulness at a high level (=4.42, S.D.=0.07).