Variables Affecting the Knowlledge Managemeng in Secondary schools in the Office of Basic Education Commission.
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This research aimed to investigate factors affecting the knowledge management in basic education secondary level schools under the Office of Basic Education Commission. The probability proportional to size of teachers in each school was used to select 60 basic education secondary school level schools under the Office of Basic Education Commission, Ministry of Education in the academic year 2011 in Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buriram, Surin and Khon Kaen provinces.The research instruments were six questionnaires designed to measure dependent and independent variables including the knowledge management of the schools (80 items); the level of academic leadership of the schools’ directors (6 items); the motivations of schools’ directors and teachers (20 items); the attitudes of the schools’ directors and teachers towards the schools’ knowledge management (20 items); the cooperation of the schools’ directors and teachers (20 items); and the organizational culture of schools (16 items). The respondents were five directors and teachers from each of the 60 schools; thus then were 360 respondents Statistics for the data analysis were mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, beta weight of the independent variable on the dependent variable, multiple correlation and squared multiple correlation.
The results were as follows.1. The schools had the high level of the knowledge management and the levels of the knowledge management in each school were slightly different.
2. Concerning the beta weight (β), it was found that the attitudes of the directors towards the schools’ knowledge management (ALT) had positive impact on the level of the knowledge management (β =0.322) with the statistical significance at α = .05 However, the bureaucratic culture of the schools negatively affected the level of the knowledge management (β =-0.295). with the statistical significance at α = .05 The independent variables explained 35 percent (R=0.591; R2=0.350) of variance of the level of the knowledge management with the statistical significance at α = .05
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