Management Factors Affecting Efficiency of Budget Management in Schools under the Jurisdiction of Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

Administrative factors are important for developing the efficiency of budget administration that enables school operations to drive policies to achieve their objectives with focus on independence under laws and regulations, as well as coordination, promotion, and support for management to be flexible, transparent, and auditable using the principles of performance-based budget administration. The purposes of this study were 1) to investigate the level of management factors of school administrators under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1; 2) to investigate the level of efficiency of budget management in school under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1; 3) to investigate the relationship between management factors and budget administration in schools under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1; and 4) to investigate management factors affecting budget management in schools under Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The samples were 335 administrators and teachers under the Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, obtained by stratified random sampling and proportional sampling according to the districts where the school is located. The instruments were 5 level rating scale questionnaires with reliability score at 0.963. The statistics were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis.  The research findings were as follows: 1. The overall level of administrative factors of school administrators under the Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 was at a high level. 2. The overall efficiency of budget management in schools under the Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 was at a high level. 3. The relationship between administrative factors and budget management efficiency in schools under the Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 was positively correlated at a high level, with statistical significance at 0.01. The correlation coefficient was 0.665. 4. Administrative factors could predict 59.50% of the budget management efficiency in schools under the Sisaket Primary Educational Service Area Office 1.  The predictive equation in raw score form is as follows:   = 1.319+ 0.302 (X₁) + 0.325 (X₂) + 0.660 (X₄)  The predictive equation in standardized score form is as follows:  = 0.624(X₄) + 0.311(X₂) + 0.266(X₁)