Next Normal Leadership Indicators for Administrators Under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Inspection Region 3

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) study the components and indicators of Next-Normal Leadership of School Administrators, 2) test the consistency of the structural relationship model and verify the appropriateness of the component weights of the components of Next-Normal Leadership of School Administrators developed with empirical data. This research is quantitative. The population and sample consist of extended opportunity schools in Inspection Region 3 under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, academic year 2024, totaling 266 schools. The sample comprised 170 schools, Data were collected from one school administrator and four department heads or heads of academic subject groups per school, totaling at least 850 respondents. The research instrument was questionnaire. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean, and standard deviation were used, along with second-order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using a statistical software package to analyze the structural model. The research results found that: 1) The components, indicators and indicators of the Next Normal leadership of educational administrators, which were synthesized and developed, consist of 4 components, 18 index and 85 indicators. 2) The analysis of the measurement model for each indicator shows consistency with empirical data. It consists of 4 main components: personality, knowledge, abilities, vision, and morality, ethics, with 18 index and 85 indicators. The factor loadings of the main components ranged from 0.63 to 1.26, sub-components from 0.314 to 0.883, and indicators from 0.24 to 1.05, all within acceptable thresholds.