The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Academic Administration of School Administrators Under the Phuket Primary Educational Service Area Office.

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study: 1) Transformational leadership of school administrators, 2) Academic administration in schools and 3) The relationship between transformational leadership and school administrators' academic administration in schools under the Phuket Primary Educational Service Area Office. The sample consisted of 275 schoolteachers under the Phuket Primary Educational Service Area Office. The research instrument was a 5 rating scale questionnaire with validity ranging from 0.67 to 1.00 and reliability of administrators' transformational leadership was 0.90 and administrators' academic administration was 0.92 Statistical analyses included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.

The findings were as follows: 1) School administrators' transformational leadership was overall rated at high level in orderly by highest to lowest mean were , from highest mean to lowest mean were individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence and inspiration motivation. 2) School administrators' academic administration was rated in each aspect and overall at a high level. In orderly, from highest to lowest mean, were educational media learning, learning outcome assessment, curriculum development, educational supervision, and learning process development. 3) The relationship between strategic leadership and school administrators' academic administration in schools under the Phuket Primary Educational Service Area Office was overall positively correlated at fairly high level, statistically significant at the .01 level (r = .679).