Abstract:
This research aimed to study; 1) the level of academic leadership of school administrators; 2) the level of learning organization of schools; 3) the relationship between academic leadership of school administrators and learning organization of schools, and 4) the effect of academic leadership of school administrators on learning organization of schools. The sample group consisted of 315 participants, including 32 school administrators and 283 teachers of schools under Roi Et Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, selected using the Krejcie & Morgan sampling table. The research tools were 5 level rating scale questionnaires scale with reliability coefficients of 0.92 for academic leadership and 0.91 for the learning organization of schools. Data analysis used percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Hypotheses were tested using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Stepwise Multiple Regression.
The results showed that 1) the overall level of academic leadership of school administrators was very high; 2) the overall level of learning organization of schools was very high; 3) there was a very high positive correlation between academic leadership of school administrators and learning organization of schools, with a correlation coefficient significant at the 0.01 level (rxy = 0.902); and
4) the aspects of academic leadership of school administrators defining a vision, goal, and mission of learning (X1), supervision of teaching and learning management (X3), promoting an atmosphere for teaching and learning (X4), curriculum and teaching administration (X2), and monitoring student progress (X5) significantly affected the learning organization of schools at the 0.01 level. These aspects predicted 91.60%
of the variance in the learning organization of schools, with the following predictive equations.
Equation for forecasting using raw scores.
Y´ = 1.370 + .274X1 + .138X3 + .125X4 + .101X2+ .064X5
Equation for forecasting using standard scores.
Z´y = .561ZX1 + .260ZX3 + .159ZX4 + .121ZX2 + .077ZX5