A Study of Relationship between Leader Traits and Classroom Research Promotion of School Administrators According to Teachers under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya PrimaryEducational Service Area Office 2.

Abstract

The purposes of this research are: 1) to study the leader traits of school administrators; 2) to study the classroom research promotion of school administrators; and 3) to study the relationship between the leadership and the classroom research promotion of school administrators under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The sample is selected from 322 teachers by stratified sampling. The research instrument used is a five-rating scale questionnaire, the leader traits of school administrators questionnaire with the reliability at 0.92 and the classroom research promotion of school administrators questionnaire with the reliability at 0.89.  The statistical tools used for data analysis are mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.

The results indicates that:  1) as a whole, the leader traits of school administrators according to the teachers is at a high level by ranking from the highest to the lowest as follows: personality, competence, and intelligence; 2) as a whole, the classroom research promotion of school administrators according to the teachers is at a high level by ranking from the highest to the lowest as follows: promotion f of classroom research achievement, responsibility of researchers, promotion for career path of researchers, and prestige of researchers; and 3) the leader traits and classroom research promotion of school administrators according to the teachers under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 have positive relation at  a significantly low level (r = .378) of .05.  The two variables have variation about 14 percent.