Factor Analysis of Leadership Components of School Administrators in the Next Normal Era

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the factor analysis of school administrators’ leadership in the next normal era. This research was mixed methods approach for qualitative data collection, the key informants were 6 school administrators, teachers, academic and supervisors. The research instruments were an in-depth interview form and a factor confirmation form. The data was analyzed by analytic induction and content analysis. For the quantitative data collection, the sample was 28 schools under the secondary education service area office Nakhon Pathom. The informants were 517 school administrators and teachers derived by proportional stratified random sampling as distributed by district. The instrument was a questionnaire. The statistic used was exploratory factor analysis using principal components analysis and orthogonal rotation by varimax.

The research results indicated that there were 5 factors of school administrators’ leadership in the next normal era. They consisted of 1) Components of personality leadership, 2) Components of academic leadership, 3) Digital Leadership Components, 4) Components of leadership in thinking and decision making, and 5) Social Leadership Components. The standardized factor loading was between 0.607-0.912 with a statistical significance level of .05. All factors could explain the factor of school administrators’ leadership in the next normal age at the percentage of 71.169, which were appropriate, accurate, feasible, and useful for determining factors of school administrators’ leadership in the next normal era.