THE FACTORS INFLUENCING PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS UNDER THE OFFICE OF PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA IN THE NORTHEAST

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to 1) study the performance efficiency of primary school teachers and factors influencing performance efficiency of primary schools and 2) study the direct, indirect, and overall influence of the factors influencing performance efficiency of primary school teachers under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area in the Northeast. The research instrument for data collection was a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire with the reliability of 0.986. The data were analyzed by using SPSS for Windows to obtain mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. LISREL program was used to analyze the confirmation of component analysis and verify the consistency between the model and the empirical data. The research findings were as follows: 1. Overall, the performance efficiency of primary school teachers and factors influencing performance efficiency of primary school teachers were at a high level. 2. The factors influencing performance efficiency of primary school teachers comprised: 1) the direct effect factors which ranked the coefficient from the most value to the least value including teachers’ characteristics, achievement orientation, school culture, teachers’ knowledge, and collaboration, 2) the indirect effect factors including school culture, achievement orientation, and teachers’ characteristics, 3) the overall effect factors including school culture, teachers’ characteristics, achievement orientation, teachers’ knowledge, and collaboration with the coefficient of 0.91, 0.91, 0.88, 0.52 and 0.71 respectively. It was found that every factor could identify the variance of the performance efficiency of primary school teachers under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area in the Northeast at 71 percent.