RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION BASED ON CONCEPT OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AND PROMOTING LIFE SKILLS STUDENTS IN DIGITAL ERA, PRA CHIM NON-KHUN INTEGRATED EDUCATION QUALITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK SCHOOL, UNDER THE SI SA KET PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE 1

Abstract

This research aimed to: 1. examine school administration based on the concept of Professional Learning Communities (PLC); 2. investigate the promotion of students’ life skills in the digital era; and 3) study the relationship between school administration based on the concept of Professional Learning Communities and the promotion of students’ life skills in the digital era in schools. The sample group consisted of 155 participants. The research instruments comprised two sets of questionnaires. The first questionnaire, consisting of 20 items on school administration based on the concept of Professional Learning Communities, yielded an IOC value of 1.00, discrimination indices ranging from .430 to .839, and a reliability coefficient of .93. The second questionnaire, consisting of 20 items on the promotion of students’ life skills in the digital era, yielded an IOC value of 1.00, discrimination indices ranging from .444 to .875, and a reliability coefficient of .95. The statistical methods employed for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient.

The research findings revealed that: 1) school administration based on the concept of Professional Learning Communities was overall practiced at a high level; 2) the promotion of students’ life skills in the digital era was overall practiced at a high level; and 3) school administration based on the concept of Professional Learning Communities demonstrated a positive relationship with the promotion of students’ life skills in the digital era at the .01 level of statistical significance, with a moderate degree of correlation.