Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Thai Secondary World Class Standard School
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This study aimed to explore the relationship and effect of administrative factors that affecting the effectiveness of Thai World class Standard Schools. A total of 375 samples were selected by using stratified random sampling. Researchers employed a survey designed questionnaire as research instrument to collect data. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as percentage, mean score, standard deviation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Findings of the study revealed that all the factors affecting the effectiveness of Thai World Class Standard Schools were at high level. Strategic planning factor was identified as highest mean score whereas teacher professional development factor was found as lowest mean score. Consequently, result also revealed that there were four significant predictors toward effectiveness of Thai Secondary World Class Standard Schools. These four significant predictors were factors for using information and communication technology(X8), teacher professional development (X6), internal process management (X2), and the focus on learners and stakeholder (X7) which have successful contributed 65.60 percent variance of effectiveness of Thai World Class Standard Schools at 0.01 significance level with multiple correlation coefficient as 0.81. This study is able is to promote the importance of factors that affecting effectiveness of Thai World Class Standard Schools.
Keywords: School effectiveness; World Class Standard School; administrative factors
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