The Leadership According to IV Bala of Basic Education School Administratorsunder the Khonkaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 5

Abstract

The aims of this research were: 1) to study the leadership according to IV Bala (bala, power) of the basic education school administrators under the Khonkaen Primary Educational Service Area Office V; 2) to compare the mean scores of the leadership of the administrators based on the factors: position, school size and working experience; 3) to study the ways to develop and promote the mentioned leadership. This study employed the mixed research methodologies: 1) for the quantitative research, its samples included 329 of educational administrators and teachers under the Khonkaen Primary Educational Service Area Office V; the tools used was a questionnaire with its reliability value of .99 and the statistics used in data analysis were: Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test (Independent Sample), f-test (One-way ANOWA) and Fisher's Least Significant Difference: LSD.; 2) for the qualitative research, the target group included 6 administrators and 6 teachers (total 12), selected by purposive sampling; in this process, an interview form was used to collect the data before content analysis was used to find the conclusion.