GUIDELINES OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION FOR PROMOTING ACTIVE LEARNING UNDER LOEI PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE 3

Abstract

               The purposes of the research were to study the current condition, the desirable condition, and the modified priority need index of school administration for the active learning promotion in the schools under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 3, to study the guidelines for school administration. and to assess the guidelines of school administration. The research was divided into three phases. The first phase was to study the current condition, the desirable condition, and the modified priority need index. The population was a total of seventy-four school administrators and 107 teachers; the sample group was a total of 132 respondents, accounting for sixty-two school administrators and seventy teachers, selected by Krejcie & Morgan's sample size calculating table, including the stratified random sampling. The research instrument was the 5-level rating scale questionnaire. The second phase was to study the guidelines for school administration, divided into three steps, the first step to collect the qualitative data from three school administrators with the in-depth structured interview, the second step to draft the guidelines, and the third step to collect the data from nine qualified experts by the focus group discussion. The third phase was to assess the guidelines by five qualified experts. The statistics used for data analysis comprised frequency distribution, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and the Modified Priority Needs Index (PNI_modified). The descriptive analytics was used for the qualitative data analysis. The results were as follows. 1. The guidelines on school administration for active learning promotion in the schools under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 revealed that the current condition was totally found at a high level (x̅  = 3.95, S.D. = 0.77). The desirable condition was totally found at the highest level (x̅  = 4.56, S.D. = 0.49), and the top three modified priority needs indices were (1) strategic change management and innovation (PNI_modified = 0.16), (2) learning design (PNI_modified = 0.15), and (3) learning by thinking and doing (PNI_modified = 0.15). 2. The result of school administration for active learning promotion in the schools under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 3. There were four components; the first component of learning by thinking and doing, endowed with three operational methods, three activities, and four practices, the second component of using and develop the instructional media the innovation and the technology for learning, endowed with three operational methods, three activities, and four practices, the third component of learning design, endowed with three operational methods, three activities, and four practices, and the fourth component of authentic assessment, endowed with three operational methods, three activities, and four practices. 3. The overall assessment results of guidelines of school administration for active learning promotion in the schools under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 were found at a high level (x̅  = 4.87, S.D. = 0.26). Individually considered in the descending order, they were Feasibility (x̅  = 4.97, S.D. = 0.05), Utility (x̅  = 4.91, S.D. = 0.07), and Propriety (x̅  = 4.87, S.D. = 0.26).