Needs of Academic Administration Development of Secondary Schools for Development of Students’ Innovative Thinking Skills

ความต้องการจำเป็นในการพัฒนาการบริหารงานวิชาการโรงเรียนมัธยมศึกษา เพื่อการพัฒนาทักษะการคิดเชิงนวัตกรรมของนักเรียน

Abstract

This research aimed to: 1) study the present state and the desirable state of academic administration of Secondary Schools for development of students’ Innovative thinking skills; 2) study the needs of academic administration development of Secondary Schools for developing students’ Innovative thinking skills. This research applied a quantitative approach. The population were secondary schools under the secondary educational service area office, totally 2,358 schools. The samples were 342 secondary schools, selected by applying Stratified Random Sampling, and simple random sampling. The key respondents were 1,026 people including 3 administrators or deputy administrators, academic teachers and teachers from each school. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation and PNI_modified.

The research findings were as follows. 1) The present state and the desirable state of academic administration of Secondary Schools for developing of students’ Innovative thinking skills were at a high level and the highest level, respectively.
2) The needs of academic administration development of Secondary Schools for developing students’ Innovative thinking skills could be classified with regard to academic administration. Overall, the highest Priority Needs Index fell on curriculum development followed by teaching and learning and measurement and evaluation, respectively. When classified with Innovative thinking skills. Overall, the highest Priority Needs Index was Higher-Order Thinking, followed by Creative leadership, Creativity, Collaborative Inquiry and Applicative Thinking, respectively.