Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study and compare the opinions of the school administrators and teachers towards the operational states of internal quality assurance in schools under Surin Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 in 3 aspects: educational quality controlling, educational quality checking and educational quality evaluation, classified by status and school sizes. The samples were 140 school administrators and 140 teachers in a total of 280 people, selected by using the table of Krejcie & Morgan, and stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire with its reliability at 0.91. The statistics used for analyzing the collected data were percentage, mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested by independent sample t-test, one - way analysis of variance, and the comparison between each pair of samples was done by Scheffé method. The significant difference was set at the level of .05. The results of this study were as follows:
1. The states of internal quality assurance in schools according to the opinions of the school administrators and teachers both as a whole and each aspect was at a high level. The educational quality control was reported as the highest mean score while the educational quality checking was reported as the lowest mean score.
2. The comparison of the states of internal quality assurance in schools according to the opinions of school administrators and teachers, classified by status as a whole was not different but educational quality controlling aspect was statistically different at significant level of .01.
3. The comparison of the states of internal quality assurance in schools according to the opinions of school administrators and teachers, classified by school sizes as a whole was not different but educational quality controlling aspect was statistically different at significant level of .01.
4. The opinions and suggestions about the states of internal quality assurance in schools according to the opinions of the school administrators and teachers with the highest percentages were that schools should have manuals and tools to monitor internal quality assurance operations, and a clear direction or guideline for internal quality assurance in schools. Moreover, the supervisors should be involved in providing knowledge, understanding and helping schools in conducting internal quality assurance continually.