VISIONARY LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE OPERATIONS WITHIN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. NORTH BANGKOK GROUP BANGKOK

Abstract

This study aims to: 1) investigate the level of visionary leadership among school administrators in the North Bangkok School Group under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, 2) examine the operations of internal quality assurance within these schools, and 3) explore the relationship between the visionary leadership of school administrators and the operations of internal quality assurance in these schools. The sample comprised 339 teachers from the North Bangkok School Group, with data collected using a questionnaire. Statistical analysis was conducted using standard statistical software to calculate frequencies, percentages, averages, and standard deviations, and Pearson's product-moment correlation was used to test the relationships between variables.

The findings revealed that: 1) The overall level of visionary leadership among the administrators was high, with the highest averages noted in the area of vision implementation, followed by vision creation, while vision dissemination scored the lowest; 2) The internal quality assurance operations were also rated highly overall, with the highest scores in the area of developing and improving educational quality, followed by the execution of the school’s educational development plan, while the assessment of internal quality standards as per established educational standards scored the lowest; 3) There was a statistically significant positive correlation at the .01 level between visionary leadership and the effectiveness of internal quality assurance operations in the North Bangkok School Group under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.