Abstract:
This study was intended to study and compare the problems of administration in
the opinion of the school administrators and the teachers in the small-size elementary under jurisdiction of the office of provincial elementary education, Surin, in the school administrators and the teachers opinions. A sample of 105 the administrators and 252
teachers in the small-size elementary schools under jurisdiction of the office of provincial
elementary education, Surin obtained through a two-stage sampling was employed in this
study.
The tools employed for collecting data were questionnaires containing 58 items to
ask the administrators and the teachers for opinions about the problems of personnel administration in the small-size elementary schools on the aspects of selection, maintenance, development and dismissal of the personnel. The questionnaires had a value
of reliability of 0.091 as a whole. The statistics employed for data analysis were a percentage, a mean, a standard deviation and a t-test.
The research findings, in the administrators and the administrators and the teachers opinions of the four aspects of problem, indicated that, as a whole, the problem
of personnel administration existed in every aspect at a moderate level. Having considered
separately, it was found that the problem excised at a moderate level in three aspects, that
is, selection, maintenance and development of the personnel while the dismissal, of personnel had the least problem. The result of comparison of opinions between the school
administrators and the teachers towards the four aspects of the problems as a whole and
separately indicated that as a whole the problem of personnel administration had an 0.05
level of statistically significant difference. Separately, it was found that in the aspects of
selection, maintenance, and development of the personnel, the problem administration had
an 0.01 level of statistically significant difference while in the aspect of dismissal of the
personnel the level of problem was not different.