The Components of Internal Education Quality Assurance for an Excellent Performance of the Private Higher Education Institutions in Thailand

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to analysis the component of internal education assurance for an excellent performance of private higher education institutions in Thailand. Data from 298 samples were administrators who responded for internal quality assurance work. The multi-stage random sampling method was used for selecting samples. The instruments employed in this research were the questionnaires that had 5-level rating scale in each questionnaire. The reliability of questionnaire in the form of an alpha conbach coefficient was 0.98. The statistical data analysis was exploratory factor analysis by using the method of principal component analysis and varimax to rotate the elements’ core perpendiculary. The results of this research were as follows: The component of internal education assurance for an excellent performance of private higher education institutions in Thailand had 7 elements that had 56 variables consisted of: 1) leadership had 7 variables, 2) strategic planning had 7 variables, 3) focus on learners and other stakeholders had 7 variables, 4) measurement, analysis and knowledge management had 10 variables, 5) focus on personnel had 12 variables, 6) focus on operating system had 7 variables, and 7) organizational development had 6 variables, in which every components had more than 1.00 eigen value and all components could describe the cumulative variance of 67.271%. The research results of the study revealed the important factors for the development of educational quality that the administrators of the private higher education institutes should deploy as basic factors in setting up the internal education quality assurance of private higher education institutions which consists of seven components of internal education quality assurance for an excellent performance as a guideline for the environmental analysis of the organizations for developing the private higher education institutions and public.