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36 Journal of Ratchathani Innovative Social Sciences : Vol.1 No.3 October-December 2017

This research aimed to 1) study teachers’ opinions towards power exercises
of school administrators under the jurisdiction of the Secondary Educational Service
Area Office 29, 2) compare the teachers’ opinions towards power exercises of school

administrators under the jurisdiction of the Secondary Educational Service Area Office
29, and 3) study guidelines for developing power exercises of school administrators
under the jurisdiction of the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 29.This
research was conducted in two stages: The first stage was to study the teachers’

opinions towards the power exercises of school administrators under the jurisdiction
of the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 29. The sample consisted of 302
people; the research tool was a questionnaire with discrimination index between

0.07-0.66, and the reliability was 0.88. The data were analyzed by frequencies, means,
percentage, average and standard deviation. The comparison of the opinions towards
the power exercises of the school administrators classified by status, genders, by
using t-test Independent, and classified by teaching experiences by using F-test: One
Way ANOVA. The second stage was to study the guidelines for developing the power

exercises of the school administrators under the jurisdiction of the Secondary
Educational Service Area Office 29 by interviewing.The sample consisted of 20
peoples, selected by purposive sampling. The tool for gathering data was the

interview guideline with its index of item objective congruence at 1.00 in all items.
The data was analyzed by content analysis and summarized by narrative.
The results of the research were as follows:
1. The teachers’ opinions towards the power exercises of school

administrators under the jurisdiction of the Secondary Educational Service Area Office
29, as a whole, it were at high level. When considered each aspect, it revealed to be
high level in all 5 aspects; 1) Expert, 2) Legitimate, 3) Coercive, 4) Reference, and 5)
Information

2. The results of comparison of the opinions towards the power exercises of
school administrators under the jurisdiction of the Secondary Educational Service
Area Office 29, classified by genders, we found that the overall was different at the
statistically significant 0.05 level, when consider each aspect, there were different in

all aspects at the statistically significant at 0.05 level which consisted of; 1) Expert, 2)
Legitimate, 3) Coercive, 4) Reference, and 5) Information. When classified by teaching
experiences, we found that it was not different at the statistically significant 0.05 level.