Abstract:
The purposes of the research were to study and to compare the expected and actual performances in school health program management as perceived by the elementary school administrators, educational Region 10. The constructed questionnaires concerning school health program management in six areas were sent to the sampled population whom they were 400 elementary school administrators under the Jurisdiction of the National Primary Education Commission, Educational Region 10. Three hundred and eighty two questionnaires, accounted for 95.50% of the total were returned. The data were then analyzed in terms of the percentage, the arithmetic means, the standard deviations, and t-test. The results were as follows: 1. The expected performances in the school health program management of administrators were in the highest level in the area of providing healthful school environment, and were in the high level in 5 areas: providing school health services, the teaching of Life Experiences Area emphasized on health, the relationship among schools, homes and community, the evaluation of school health program management, and the school health program planning. 2. The actual performances of administrators in general were in the high level. There were some items which were in the low level in only three areas were the school health program management planning, the teaching of Life Experiences Area emphasized on health, and the relationship among schools, homes and community. 3. The comparison between the expected and actual performances in school health program management as perceived by the administrators was found to be statistically significant differences at the level of .05 in each area and each item by the expected performances higher than the actual one.