GUIDELINES ON DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY ADMINISTRATORS UNDER LOEI PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE 2

Abstract

               The purposes of the research were to (1) study current conditions, desirable conditions and necessary needs of the guidelines on development of instructional leadership of the 21^st century administrators under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, (2) to develop the guidelines on development of instructional leadership of the 21^st century administrators under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, and (3) to assess the guidelines on development of instructional leadership of 21^st century administrators under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The research was conducted into three phrases. The first phrase was on the study of current conditions, desirable conditions, and necessary needs. The 308 samples of the research were 33 school administrators and 275 teachers, selected by Krejcie and Morgan’s table and the stratified random sampling. The research instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire with reliability of 0.81; the statistics used for data analysis comprised of frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and the priority needs index (PNI). The second phrase was on the development of the guidelines on development of instructional leadership of the 21^st century administrators, consisting of two steps: the first step was on the multi-case study, in which the instrument used for data collection was the semi-structured interview; the second step was on the focus group discussion, by which the instrument used for data collection was the focus group note, and the data analysis was conducted by the descriptive statistics. The third phrase was on the assessment of the guidelines on development of instructional leadership of the 21^st century administrators, in which the instrument was the criterian-referenced evaluation, and the statistics used for data analysis were arithmetic mean and standard deviation.   

               The research results were as follows: 1) The current condition was found to be overall at a high level (x̅ = 3.62, S.D. = 0.13), the desirable was found to be overall at the highest level (x̅ = 4.92, S.D.= 0.08), and the first priority needs index comprised of the teaching supervision and the teaching assessment (PNI_Modified = 0.58).   2)The guidelines on development of instructional leadership of the 21^st century administrators consisted of five factors. 3) The assessment of the guidelines on development of instructional leadership of the 21^st century administrators was found to be overall at the highest level (x̅ = 4.90, S.D. = 0.23).