Transformational Leadership Of School Administrators Affectting Students-Centered Learning Of Teachers Under Chonburi Primary Educational Service Area 1

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study 1) levels of school administrators’ transformational leadership; 2) levels of students-centered learning management; 3) relationship between the transformational leadership of administrators and the students-centered learning management; and 4) the transformational leadership of school administrators affecting students-centered learning management. The sample consisted of 302 administrators and teachers in the academic year 2023.The research instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The research findings found that: 1) The level of school administrators’transformational leadership overall and each aspect were a high level, ranking by mean scores from high to low: inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence and individualized consideration respectively. 2) The level of students’ centered learning management overall and each aspect were at a high level, ranking by the mean scores from high to low: using media and technology, participation learning, measuring and assessment student learning. The lowest level was doing activities respectively. 3) The relationship between school administrators’transformational leadership and students’centered learning management were at the positive high correlation ( =.778), with the statistical significance at the .01 level. 4) The school administrators’ transformational leadership in terms of individualized consideration, idealized influence, inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation affected the students’centered learning management with the statistical significance of .05. They could be used to predict students’ centered learning management at 63.90%. The predictive equation could be written in form of standard scores as Z'Y = 465Z₄ +.315Z₁ +.213Z₂ +-.165Z₃