Strategic Participation of the Community Network for Small School Quality Development

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze guidelines of community network participation for quality development in small schools to create and develop strategies of this community network participation and to evaluate these strategies. There were three Phases: the samples for Phase One were school administrators, teachers and school board committee; Phase two were 21 experts, and Phase three were 20 small schools. The data were collected by the analysis of documents, questionnaires, interviews, public hearing. Quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics: frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, and qualitative data were analyzed by using content analysis.

The findings found that the guidelines for the community network participation comprised four steps: participation in project initiatives, participation in planning, participation in operation, participation in project evaluation.  Suitable strategic participation of community network in small school quality development consisted of 4 elements which are data analysis strategy for community network participation, developmental plan strategy for community network participation, practical strategy for community network sharing, and evaluation and control strategy for community network participation. The quality evaluation result of strategies of community network participation in small school development found that regarding the element structures, they were appropriate at the highest level. However, if considering each sub-element; namely, appropriateness, possibility, correctness, and usefulness, they were at the highest level. In addition, Real-time compliance check of strategies of community network participation in small school development found that there were 4 elements which were approved only 90% by the community  network.