Digital Leadership Development Model for School Administrators Under Maha Sarakham Secondary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

           The purpose of the research were to: 1) study the current context, desired context, and need of digital leadership development, 2) create and verify the appropriateness of digital leadership development model, 3) to evaluate the feasibility and utilization of digital leadership development model.The research instruments used to collect data were: 1) questionnaire, 2) Digital Leadership Development Model, 3) Feasibility and Utilization Assessment Form, and 4) Feasibility and Utilization Evaluation Form.

           The results were as follows: 1) There results on the current context, desired context, and need of digital leadership development collected from 35 school administrators revealed that the current context of digital leadership was in the high level and the desired context of digital leadership was in the highest level. While result of the need of digital leadership development could be arranged from the highest to the lowest as the developing digital learning of school administrators, creating of vision in digital, excellent and professional execution, and building up digital communication respectively. 2) The result of the development of digital leadership model consisted of 5 aspects including: 1) principles and concepts, 2) objectives, 3) Methods of Execution, 4) Evaluation), and 5) conditions to success. The results of the feasibility and utilization evaluations revealed that the feasibility and utilization were reported in the high level. 3) The result of assess the appropriateness and feasibility of Digital Leadership Development Model for School Administrators 35 people, indicated that the model feasibility was at a high level and high-level benefits. The result of the evaluation of feasibility of the digital leadership model gathered from 35 school administrators was found in the high level, while the result of the evaluation of the utilization was reported in the highest level.