Participative Management Affecting Smart School Under the Ratchaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the level of participative management of school administrators and teachers; 2) study the level of smart school; and 3) analyze the participative management affecting smart school under the Ratchaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. This descriptive research aimed to describe. The population consisted of 2,017administrators and teachers. The sample of the study consisted of 314 school administrators and teachers under the Ratchaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 determined using Krejcie and Morgan Sample Size Table, derived by proportional stratified random sampling as distributed by district. The research instrument was a questionnaire developed by the researcher, with content validity ranging from 0.67-1.00 and reliability of 0.98 for participative management and 0.99 for smart school. Statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The research results were as follows: 1) Overall and in specific aspects, the participative management of school administrators and teachers were at a high level. Specifically, all aspects were at a high level. The aspects were autonomy, trust, goals and objectives, and commitment respectively. 2) Overall, smart school was at a high level. Specifically, the aspect was at a high level, the aspect was learnable intelligence. The aspects were at a high level. The aspects were embracing complexity, teaching for mastery and transfer, learning-centered, learning organization, generative knowledge, and focus on understanding, respectively. 3) The participative management of school administrators and teachers in the aspects of autonomy trust and goals and objectives together predicted the smart school at a percentage of 75.10 with a statistical significance level of .01.