TRANSPARENCY MANAGEMENT MODEL ACCORDING TO BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION ADMINISTRATORS UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the conditions of transparency management of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area, 2) to study the components and develop transparency management model according to Buddhist principles of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area, and  3) to evaluate the transparency management model according to Buddhist principles of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area. Mixed methods research was designed which divided into 3 phases; Phase 1 survey was used for studying the conditions of transparency management of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area, data was collected from 379 teachers and administrators. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and confirmatory factor analysis. Phase 2 in-depth interview was conducted to study the components and develop a model for transparency management according to Buddhist principles for administrators of educational institutions under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area which collected from 10 key informants using interview form, and analyzed by analytic induction. Phase 3 evaluate the transparency management model according to Buddhist principles of educational institution administrators under the Office of the Primary Educational Service Area by using focus group discussion with 9 experts and data was analyzed by content analysis, and content validity index was designed by assessing from 5 school administrators under the Office of the Primary Educational Service Area, and data was analyzed value of content validity index. Results were shown as follows: 1) Conditions of transparency management of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area in all 3 areas consisted of disclosure, responsibility and investigation showed overall opinion at a high level. Results of second order Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the composition for transparency management of educational institution administrators in 3 aspects fit with empirical data. 2) Components and development of transparency management model according to Buddhist principles of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area consisted of 5 main components which were 1) disclosure, 2) responsibility, 3) investigation, 4) Sammappadhāna IV, and 5) transparency management following Buddhist principles. 3) Results of evaluation the transparency management model according to Buddhist principles of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area using focus group discussion found that all components were appropriate. Results of content validity index showed that each item evaluating was 1.00, and the content validity index of the entire model was equal to 1.00. It can be interpreted that the developed model of transparency management according to Buddhist principles of educational institution administrators under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area was appropriate, accurate, possible to practice, and can be used for utilization. Knowledge of this research can be summarized to be DRIST Model.

Keywords: Transparency Management, Buddhist Principles, Educational Institution Administrators