THE STRATEGY OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE BASIC EDUCATION COMMISSION

Abstract

The objective of this research article was to study the components and strategy of learning management in the 21^st Century of secondary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission by research and development method. The data was collected via reviewing of documents and related literature, conducting of a focus group discussion involving 11 school administrators, 385 school administrators by questionnaires, 11 special experts by interview and 9 scholar experts by doing connoisseurship, all of whom were purposively selected. The research tools were a form containing issues for focus group discussion, questionnaires, interview and connoisseurship. Research data were mean, standard deviation, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), analyzed with content analysis in order to synthesize to derive at conclusions. The findings showed that 1) the learning management in the 21^st Century of secondary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission was composed of 5 components with 19 variables. The 5 components with their variables could be specified as follows: 1) the curriculum component, with 4 variables; 2) the instructional management component, with 5 variables; 3) the teacher component, with 3 variables; 4) the school administrator component, with 3 variables; and 5) the learning environment component, with 4 variables, that were well fitted with the empirical data (X²-test = 253.18 df = 130 P = 0.00              X²/df = 1.95 RMSEA = 0.05 SRMR = 0.02 CFI = 0.98 GFI = 0.93 AGFI = 0.90              PGFI = 0.64). 2) The Strategy of Learning Management in the 21^st Century of Secondary Schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission consist of 5 core strategies, 19 secondary strategies, and 71 projects/activities.                     The Strategies’ suitable and feasible were at the highest level.