Leadership Capacity of the Basic Education School Administrators under the Jurisdiction of NakhonRatchasima Primary Educational Service Area Office 7

Abstract

        This mixed-method research had the purposes to study the leadership capacity of the basic education school administrators under a jurisdiction of NakhonRatchasima Primary Educational Service Area office 7. The samples consisted of 140 school administrators, derived through Krejcie and Morgan’s sample-size table, and simple random sampling, also 5 experts. The instrument used for collecting data was a 5-rating scale questionnaire. The questionnaire had the content validity with an index of congruence (IOC) between 0.80-1 and a reliability of 0.90. The statistics used in analyzing the data were percentage, mean, Standard Deviation, and the qualitative data were undertaken by the content analysis.

         The research findings were as follows:

1. The leadership capacity of school administrators was at a high level in every aspect, running from high to low: achievement attainment, emotional intelligence strategic leadership, and total leadership, respectively.
2. The guidelines for developing leadership capacity of school administrators included 4 aspects, namely 1) Strategic leadership: showing good professional leadership as the media leader on school vision, assessing cost and benefit on risk management to distribute school resources for minutemen use, and having multiple skills in solving problems to show leadership; 2) achievements attainment: analyzing, synthesizing and creating the body of knowledge in educational provision administration, promoting research for developing quality knowledge management, and doing effective quality education plans worth for education and environment; 3) Emotional intelligence: controlling emotion, realizing beddings, being optimistic, creating working climate, thinking and performing strategically as the transformational and good-governance leader, and efficiently communicating with different sand diversified persons; and 4) Total leadership: understanding colleagues’ behaviors, building up organizational culture, accepting individuals’ different abilities, and possessing suitable and efficient personnel administration.