Empowerment of School Administrators Affecting Teachers Performance Based on Teacher Professional Standards in Schools under Krabi Primary Education Service Area Offices
Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study (1) the level of empowerment of school
administrators as perceived by teachers in schools (2) the level of teachers performance based on
teacher professional standards (3) the relationship of empowerment of school administrators with
teachers performance based on teacher professional standards and (4) the influence of
empowerment of school administrators on teachers performance based on teacher professional
standards in schools. The research sample consisted of 325 school teachers working under Krabi
Primary Education Service Area Offices, obtained by stratified random sampling based on school
size. The employed research instrument was a questionnaire with reliability coefficients of .83
and IOC of .87. Statistics employed for data analysis were the frequency, percentage, mean,
standard deviation, correlation coefficient, and step-wise multiple regression analysis. Research
findings showed that (1) the overall empowerment of school administrators was rated at a high
level; (2) the overall teachers performance based on teacher professional standards in schools
under Krabi Primary Education Service Area Offices was rated at a high level; (3)the correlation
between empowerment of school administrators and teachers performance based on teacher
professional standard was positive and at the rather high level, which was significant at the .01
level; and (4) the empowerment of school administrators in the aspects of acknowledgement of
mistakes, provision of trusts, provision of knowledge and information, provision of training and
development, clearly identification of teachers responsibility and duty, and assignment of
teachers duty and responsibility affected teachers performance based on teacher professional
standards in schools under Krabi Primary Education Service Area Offices; these factors could be
combined to explain the variance of teachers performance based on teacher professional
standards in schools by 54.2 percent, which was significant at the .05 level.