Developing program development for enhancing innovation leadership education of school administrators under the office of Mahasarakham primary education service area 2.

Abstract

This research was the research and development, aiming to: 1) study the components and indicators of the innovation leadership of school administrators, 2) study the current states, desirable states and priority needs in the enhancing leadership of school administrators, 3) develop the enhancing innovation leadership program for school administrators, and 4) study the results of the program utilization of the enhancing innovation leadership of the school administrators. This research conduct included 4 phases as follows; Phase 1: investigating the components and indicators with the key informants of 7 peer reviewers, Phase 2: studying the current states, desirable states and priority needs, conducted with 320 samples, Phase 3: designing and evaluating the program by 7 specialists, Phase 4: utilizing the program with 30 school administrators. The research instruments contained the school administrators’ creative leadership development program with 6 modules, learning achievement test, evaluation form of learning module quality and satisfaction evaluation form. The statistics for analyzing the data comprised the percentage, mean, standard deviation, the modified priority needs index (PNI modified) and the hypothesis testing with the t-test. The research findings indicated that: 1) the innovation leadership components and indicators of the school administrators implied 4 components with 16 indicators; 2) the current states of the school administrators’ enhancing innovation leadership revealed in overall were in the moderate level, the desirable states of the school administrators’ innovation leadership appeared as a whole in the most level, and the priority needs on the school administrators’ innovation leadership exposed with the highest values, covering vision, flexibility, reliability, success oriented and imagination respectively; 3) the developed enhancing innovation leadership program of the school administrators from 9 specialists’ evaluation illustrated the program consisting of appropriateness, feasibility, and usefulness revealing in overall at the most level; 4) the results from the program utilization to develop the enhancing innovation leadership of 12 school administrators were that: 4.1) the process efficiency/the output efficiency contained the mean scores equaled 91.45/82.92; 4.2) the efficiency index of the program development to develop creative leadership of the school administrators under the Primary Educational Service Area Office implied 0.6204 or 62.04%; 4.3) the school administrators had the learning achievement after learning higher than before learning at the statistical significance at .01 level; 4.4) the school administrators developed had the learning retention after 2-week learning in average indifferently; and 4.5) the school administrators developed were satisfied in overall in the most level.