The Professional Learning Community in Educational Institutions Perceived by Teachers Opinions Under Kanchanaburi Primary Educational Service Area 3

สภาพชุมชนการเรียนรู้ทางวิชาชีพในสถานศึกษาตามความคิดเห็นของครู สังกัดสำนักงานเขตพื้นที่การศึกษาประถมศึกษากาญจนบุรี เขต 3

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study professional learning community in educational institutions and 2) to compare professional learning community in educational institutions perceived by teachers' opinions under Primary Educational Service Area Office of Kanchanaburi Area 3 classified by sizes of educational institutions. The examples used for this research were 277 teachers under Primary Educational Service Area Office of Kanchanaburi Area 3 by the method of stratified sampling. The tool used for the research was 5-level rating scale questionnaire with content validity between 0.67 – 1.00 and reliability at 0.95. The data was collected by statistics which were percentage, mean, standard deviation, One-Way ANOVA analysis and test of difference of pairwise average based on Scheffe’s method with statistical significance at .05.  The results showed that: 1) the professional learning community in educational institutions perceived by teachers’ opinions under Primary Educational Service Area Office of Kanchanaburi Area 3 was overall at a high level in operation and respectively found a high level considering from each aspect as follows: collaborative teamwork, learning and professional development caring community, supportive structure for community, shared vision, andshared leadership,  2) the comparison of professional learning community in educational institutions perceived by teachers’ opinions under Primary Educational Service Area Office of Kanchanaburi Area 3 classified by sizes of educational institutions, in overall, was statistically significant difference as the administrators of large-sized educational institutions were more operative than the medium-sized educational institutions.