SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHER’S HAPPINESS UNDER THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE1

Abstract

 1) school administration of head under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1 

 2) teachers’ happiness under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1 and 3) school administration and teachers’ happiness under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1. The samples were 59 schools under The Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1. The 2 respondents from each school including a school administrator and a teacher, in the total of 118 respondents. The instrument employed for data collection was an opinionnaire about school administration based on theory of Sergiovanni and Teacher’s happiness based on concept of happiness self-assessed (HAPPINOMETER) of Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient.

The research findings were as follows :

1. School administration of Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1, as a whole were at a high level and an individual was at highest level 1 clause (Planning) and high level 6 clause. The arithmetic mean ranking from the highest to lowest were as follows; 1) decision making 2) organizing 3) evaluation 4) coordinating 5) influencing and 6) communicating
2. Teachers’ happiness under The Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1, as a whole were at a high level and individuals were at highest level 4 clause. The arithmetic mean ranking from the highest to lowest were as follows; 1) happy soul 2) happy society 3) happy family 4) happy brain. The other individuals were at high level 5 clause. The arithmetic mean ranking from the highest to lowest were as follows; 1) happy work-life 2) happy heart 3) happy relax 4) happy body and 5) happy money
3. School administration correlated with teachers’ happiness under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1 as a whole at .01 level of statistical significance.