Current Situations, Desirable Situations and Guidelines for Developing Relationship between Schools and Communities of Secondary Schools in Bueng kan Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study current situations and desirable situations and guideline for developing relationship between schools and communities of secondary schools; 2) to study needs, relationships between schools and communities of secondary schools; and 3) to develop guidelines for creating relationships between schools and communities of secondary schools at Bueng Kan province. The Samples were 210 school administrators, Chief stead of general administration section, head of academic section, Head of Personnel Management Group, community relations works for School board followed Krejcie & Morgan's table in the sample-size specification, and they were selected by Stratified Random Sampling. There were 4 instruments used in this research: (1) checklist is the position information of respondents with the index of item objective congruence (IC) between 0.60-1.00, the discrimination between 0.25-0.59, and the reliability of 0.84 ;

(2) a questionnaire in current situations, desirable situations and guidelines for developing relationship between schools and communities of secondary schools in Bueng Kkan province with the index of item objective congruence (IC) between 0.60-1.00, the discrimination between 0.27-0.69, and the reliability of 0.91 ; 3) a structured-interview form ; and (4) a suitability and possibility assessment form guideline for developing relationship between schools and communities of secondary schools in Bueng Kan province. The statistics employed were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the index modified priority needs index (PNI modified

The results were as follows: (1) overall current situations of relationship between school and community were at the high level, and overall current situations of relationship between school and community were at the highest level. (2) The needs that have the highest mean are community service. (3) And the guidelines for developing relationship between schools and communities of secondary schools were at the high level and the possibility wat at the highest level.