The Measurement Model of Entrepreneurship of High Vocational Certificate Students under Office of the Vocational Education Commission in Chiang Mai Province
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The purposes of this research were to develop and validate the measurement model of entrepreneurship among high vocational certificate students. The research samples were 550 high vocational certificate students under the office of the vocational education commission in Chiang Mai selected sampled using stratified random sampling. The research instrument was questionnaire with 29 items of the 5 rating-scales. The reliability of the entire questionnaire was 0.936. The data analyzes employed descriptive statistics and second order confirmatory factor analysis (2nd CFA) by using program Mplus 7.4. Preliminary data analysis found that the model fit the empirical data and accurate measurement. The entrepreneurship measurement model consists 4 factors and 10 indicators namely 1) risk taking, it contains 2 indicators, namely enterprising characteristic and tolerance of ambiguity 2) innovativeness which has 2 indicators, namely creativeness and using technology 3) proactiveness consists 3 indicators, namely planning ahead, opportunity Seeking and competitiveness lastly need for achievement consisting of 3 indicators, namely goal orientation, perseverance and personal responsibility. The model development and validation resulted in = 22.777, df=16, p-value = 0.1198, CFI = 0.998, TLI = 0.993, RMSEA = 0.028, SRMR = 0.014. It was found that the first and second-order factor loadings were between 0.666–0.846 and 0.934–0.960, respectively. The variable with the highest factor loading were need for achievement followed by proactiveness, innovativeness and risk taking respectively.
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