Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study and compare the opinions of administrators and teachers about self-performance according to the professional ethics of school administrators under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 32, classified by position and schools size. The samples consisted of 341 teachers: 20 school administrators and 321 teachers, selected by using the table of Krejcie and Morgan, and stratified random sampling technique. The instrument used to collect the data was a questionnaire with the reliability level of 0.97, which divided into three parts: part 1 was a checklist, part 2 was a 5rating scale, and part 3 was the open - ended questions. The statistics used to analysed the data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA, and Scheffes test. The findings of this research were as follows:
1. Self-performance according to the professional ethics of school administrators under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 32 according to the opinions of the administrators and teachers in overall and each aspect was at a high level ( = 4.22, S.D = 0.44), which could be categorized from high to low as follows: 1) client-centered ethics, 2) collegial ethics, 3) professional ethics, 4) personal ethics, and 5) societal ethics.
2. Classified by position, the opinions of school administrators and teachers about self-performance according to the professional ethics of school administrators under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 32 were not different in overall aspect. When considering in each aspect, the client-centered ethics was significantly different at the statistical level of .01 while other aspects were not different.
3. In terms of schools size, the opinions of school administrators and teachers about self-performance according to the professional ethics of school administrators under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 32 were not different in overall aspect. When considering in each aspect, no difference was found.
4. Other suggestions about self-performance according to the professional ethics of school administrators were found that in the personal ethics, the school administrators should always train themselves to improve their skills and ideas as well as planning and using technology. Regarding professional ethics, the administrators should follow the rules and regulations, and they should behave as a good model for school personnel and students both in and out of working time. About the client-centered ethics, the school administrators should promote and encourage students to behave themselves as a good person and to stay away from drugs. With reference to the collegial ethics, the school administrators should encourage teachers to develop their work to be successful, such as encouraging them to continue their study in higher education or to be trained in new and trendy courses. Moreover, in the societal ethics, the school administrators should support the community activities regularly, and they should encourage students to contribute and develop the communities where they live to have the unity in the community.