RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND DIGITAL COMPETENCY OF CIVIL SERVANT TEACHERS, BANG KHEN DISTRICT OFFICE BANGKOK

Abstract

This research aimed to: (1)examine the leadership of school administrators in Bang Khen District Office under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration; (2)investigate the digital competencies of teachers; and (3) analyze the relationship between administrators’ leadership and teachers’ digital competencies. The sample consisted of 165 teachers from schools under the Bang Khen District Office, selected using Krejcie and Morgan’s table and simple random sampling. The research instruments included a questionnaire on administrators’ leadership covering 7 dimensions (35 items) and a questionnaire on teachers’ digital competencies covering 5 dimensions (25 items).

                   The index of item-objective congruence was 1.00, and the reliability coefficient was 0.95. Data were analyzed using mean ( ), standard deviation (S.D.), and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The findings revealed that: (1) overall leadership of administrators was at a high level ( = 4.38, S.D. = 0.58), with social skills ranking highest, followed by adaptability, recognition, initiative, coordination, persuasion, and support as the lowest; (2) overall digital competencies of teachers were at a high level (  = 4.34, S.D. = 0.51), with all dimensions rated high. The highest was digital leadership, followed by digital problem-solving, digital media and technology skills, information and data literacy, and digital communication; and (3) administrators’ leadership had a strong positive correlation with teachers’ digital competencies at the .01