Variables Affecting a Level of Practice and Quality of Educational Quality Assurance in Basic Education Schools

The purposes of this research were to study the Level of Practice and Quality of Educational Quality Assurance in Basic Education Schools of the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The sample consisted of 60 secondnary schools in Office of the basic Education Commission in the provinces of Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima, Burirum, Surin and Khon Kaen were drawn by using proportionally with the number of teachers in each school. The data were collected by using (1) the questionnaire on the acting of educational quality assurance in basic education schools. (2) the record form the external assessment of the office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment, (3) the questionnaire on the director leadership, (2) test of the directors and teachers attitudes towards educational quality assurance, (5) test of the directors and teachers inquirying motive, (6) test of the directors and teachers working responsibility, and (7) the questionnaire on the directors and teachers cooperative. The statistical methods used to analysis the data were mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation and path analysis. 1. The level of acting of educational quality assurance in basic education schools was at a high level. There was just a fairly difference in acting of educational quality assurance in basic education schools. 2. The level of external quality assessment in basic education schools was at a good level. There was just a little difference in external quality assessment in basic education schools. 3. The variables affecting level of acting of educational quality assurance in basic education schools were the level of the school directors attitudes towards educational quality assurance (β = 0.10), the level of the school directors working responsibility (β = 0.13), the level of the teacher attitudes towards educational quality assurance (β = 0.23) and the level of the teachers inquirying motive (β = 0.49) These four variables were sixty - eight percent explaining the variation of acting of educational quality assurance in basic education schools at the significant level of 0.01 4. The variables affecting level of external quality assessment in basic education schools were the level of director leadership (β = 0.02), the level of the directors working responsibility (β = 0.14), the level of the teacher, working responsibility (β = 0.14), the level of school directors and teachers cooperative (β = 0.33) and the level of acting of educational quality assurance in basic education schools (β = 0.21) These five variables were sixty percent explaining the variation of The level of external quality assessment in basic education schools at the significant level of 0.01