Administration Skills of Islamic Private School Administrators in Pattani Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study and compare work administration skills of Islamic private school administrators based on their administrative position, educational  qualification, work experiences, and school sizes and compile suggestions on work administration skills development for Islamic private school administrators in Pattani province. The samples used in this research consisted of 33 school directors, 33 school managers and 132 school administrative heads, making a total of 198 samples. The data were collected using questionnaires and interviews. The descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test were used to analyze the collected data.

It is  found from this study that the overall and in each dimensional level of work administration skills are high with mean scores ranging from high to low namely, human relation skills, technical skills, academic skills and conceptual skills. On the comparative analysis of the work administration skills, the results show that there are no significant difference for both overall and each dimensional level of the administrators based on their administrative position difference. However, a statistically significant differences at .05 is found for overall and each dimensional level of the administrators based on their education qualifications, work experiences and the sizes of their workplaces.

Regarding suggestions related to work administration skills development of the administrators, the administrators should have a true understanding of administration process and they should be conscious of improving conflict resolution skills, empowering subordinates. School administrators should be skillful in utilizing the emerging technology and innovation, using forecasting technical to identify school’s future trends, supervising and managing learning resources. Rather, they should be given emphasis to curriculum development.