The Administration Model Complexity of School Under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the state of problem in complex administration of School Under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, 2) to develop and propose the administration model complexity of school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office. Mixed methods research was used for research design. In qualitative research was conducted by using documentary study, in-depth interview with 5 key informants and focus group discussion with 9 experts. Research tools were documentary record form and interview form. In quantitative research, 400 samples of secondary school administrators and teachers were used for data collection and was selected by multistage random sampling. Research tool was questionnaires. Qualitative data was analyzed by content analysis whereas quantitative data were analyzed by percentage, frequency, mean, and standard deviation. Results indicated that 1) the state of problem in complex administration of School Under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office consisted of 4 aspects and overall has shown the balanced level of complexity that was the problem solving consisted of (1) to encourage community to have strong academic administration in academic management, (2) to set up fund raising of resources to support education in financial management, (3) to set human resource planning for educational personnel in human management, and (4) to conduct research for policy and plan development in general administration. 2) The administration model complexity of school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office consisted of 5 components which were (1) the principle of complexity, (2) the objective of complex administration, (3) process of complex administration, (4) model utilization, and (5) key success factors. Results of validation based on 4 standards in overall was at high level.