Innovative Organization of School under The Office of The Basic Education (OBEC): A Second Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis

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Aniruth Boonkua
Ampapan Tantinakorngul
Pariyaporn Tungkunanan

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This study aimed to develop and examine the Goodness-of-Fit Index of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) of innovative organization of school under the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC). The result is based on the empirical data. The participants for this study were 84 school directors, 332 deputy school directors, and 84 heads of ICT department under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The tool for data collection was approved questionnaire with high content validity at 0.97. The data analyzed by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The study shows the innovative organization of school under the Office of the Basic Education Commission consists of six factors: Strategic Management, Organizational Culture, Human Resource Development, Innovative Leader, Information and Communications Technology, and Learning Organization. The results of examination of the Goodness-of-Fit Index of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) found the model fit indexes based on the empirical data. The factor loadings of six factors were from 0.77 – 0.95 and factor loadings of indicators were from 0.59 – 0.78.

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