Development of Learning and Innovation Skills Indicators of Secondary School Students under Nakhon Phanom Secondary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to develop the structural model of learning and innovation skills of secondary school students; and 2) to verify the congruence of the developed structural model of learning and innovation skills indicators of secondary school students under Nakhon Phanom secondary educational service area office with empirical data. The study was conducted in 2 phases. The first phase was the structural model development of learning and innovation skills of secondary school students using relevant documents, research analysis, and an interview with 5 experts. The second phase was the verification the congruence of the developed structural model of learning and innovation skills indicators with empirical data, using confirmatory factor analysis. The sample were 37 school administrators and 390 teachers, a total of 427 participants in an academic year B.E. 2564, selected with multi-stage sampling. The tool in data collection was a 5-level rating scale questionnaire with IOC between 0.60 - 1.00, discrimination value between .47 - .89 and overall reliability value at .97. The data were analyzed with the statistical software.
The findings were as follows. 1. The learning and innovation skills of secondary school students under Nakhon Phanom secondary educational service area office comprised of 3 main components, 14 sub-components, and 72 indicators. 2. The developed structural model on learning and innovation skills of secondary school students under Nakhon Phanom secondary educational service area office has performed congruence with the empirical data, with Chi – square value x² ) at 62.79, degree of freedom (df) at 70, p-value at 0.72, Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) at 0.98, Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) at 0.97, and Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) at 0.00.