Transformation Leadership Indicators in Ethics for the Primary School Administrators under the Office of the Basic Education

Abstract

The purposes of this study are 1) to study an appropriate indicator of primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. 2) to test the model of indicator of primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. 3) to identify the main and minor elements indicator and weighing of primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. 4) to study the guidelines developing primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission by using Mixed Methods Research. The samples of this study are 379 primary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The information providers in total are 1,137 consisting of 379 directors/ acting for directors, 1 for each school, and 758 supervisors 2 for each school.

Research instruments are 1) questionnaires about primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission of which reliability is .98. 2) structured interviews of the year 2020, statistics used in data analysis are frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation (S.D.), and Confirmatory Factor Analysis: CFA by using statistic application.

The research revealed that

1) the average of the indicator of primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission is between 3.51 – 4.75 and the distribution coefficient is between 3.15 – 19.40 which showed that the appropriate indicator can be selected for all kinds of Structural Relationship Model because of the average is equal or over 3.00 and the distribution coefficient is equal or under 20%. 2) the result of all 4 models’ CFA showed that all models developed from the theory and the research result which well correspond to the empirical data and revealed that all 4 elements, Moral Idealized Influence, Moral Inspiration Motivation, Moral Intellectual Stimulation, and Moral Individualized Consideration, are Structural Relationship Model of primary school director’s moral change under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. 3) The factor loading of all elements is positive, 0.91-0.95, and showed that the statistical significance is at 0.1 level which is sorted from factor loading in descending order First, Moral Intellectual Stimulation is 0.95.Second, Moral Inspiration Motivation is 0.94.Then, Moral Individualized Consideration is 0.93. And the last, Moral Idealized Influence is 0.91. The factor loading of all elements is positive with the statistical significance is at 0.1 level.4) According to the results from data analysis above, the expert supported director to provide the elements and indicator in school management which correspond to the research results.