Academic Leadership of School Administrators Affecting Change Management in Schools Under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Nakhon Phanom
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This research aims to 1) study and compare the school administrators’ academic leadership classified by status and school size, 2) study and compare change management in schools classified by status and school size, 3) study and compare the relationship between school administrators’ academic leadership and change management in schools, and 4) study the predictive power of school administrators' academic leadership affecting change management in schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Nakhon Phanom. There were 277 samples including 64 school administrators and 213 teachers under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Nakhon Phanom in academic year 2024, determined by Boonchom Srisa-ard’s table. The research instrument is a 5-level Likert scale questionnaire. The statistics used include percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation analysis, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The research findings are as follows: 1) the overall school administrators’ academic leadership was at the high level.
2) The overall change management in schools was at the high level. 3) The school administrators’ academic leadership and change management in schools revealed high significant positive correlation at the .01 level. 4) There were 5 variables of school administrators’ academic leadership that affected change management under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Nakhon Phanom: Personnel development (X5), establishing relationships with teachers, students and community (X6), supervision (X4), vision, goal, and mission setting (X1) and Curriculum and teaching management (X2) can be predicted with statistical significance at the .01 level. They could be predicted up to 77 percent and the Standard Error of estimate is ± .14.
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