ปัจจัยเชิงสาเหตุที่มีอิทธิพลต่อประสิทธิผลของโรงเรียนเอกชน ในประเทศไทย The Causal of Factors Influening the Effectiveness of the Private Schools in Thailand
The purposes of this research were: 1) to examine the consistency of the model of factors influencing the effectiveness of private schools in Thailand, 2) to investigate direct, indirect and total effects of factors influencing the effectiveness of private schools in Thailand. The samples of study selected by multi-stage sampling were 420 school directors. The research instruments were a questionnaire with Cronbach’s alpha coefficients ranging from 0.89-0.96. Data were analyzed for frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Skewness, Kurtosis, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. the LISREL software was employed to analyze the causal relationship model|
The research findings were summarized as follows: 1) The developed model showed a goodness-of-fit with the empirical data by gaining the following values: c2 = 114.65 df = 109 P-value = 0.337 GFI = 0.97 AGFI = 0.9 RMSEA = 0.011 SRMR = 0.018 and CN = 507.32. The R-square of the casual factors influencing the effectiveness of private school in Thailand was at 88 Percent (R2 = 0.88), 2) The factors influencing the effectiveness of private school in Thailand were as the following. The direct effect had five factors: school competency, instructional leadership, learning management, school atmosphere and community participation respectively. The indirect effects were instructional leadership, school atmosphere and school competency. The total effects were instructional leadership, school competency, learning management, school atmosphere and community participation respectively.