The Role of School Administrators in Promoting Teachers to Use Path Analysis Techniques

Abstract

         This article aimed to present the role of school administrators in promoting teachers to use path analysis techniques for research. The role of school administrators was concluded as follows: 1) Administrators should encourage teachers to acknowledge the needs to do research for development of educational administration by using path analysis techniques. 2) Administrators should encourage teachers to understand the characteristics of independent variables and dependent variables which could be measured at least in interval scale. 3) Administrators should encourage teachers to understand assumptions of path analysis. 4) Administrators should encourage teachers to understand the development of conceptual framework in educational administration from the study of concepts, theories, and related research to determine the variables and conceptual framework. 5) Administrators should encourage teachers to understand basic hypothesis modeling from conceptual frameworks. 6) Administrators should encourage teachers to understand model development by experts. 7) Administrators should encourage teachers to understand the congruency check between hypothetical model and empirical data and offer the research result summary, the results discussion and suggestion on the usefulness of the research results.