Analyze confirmatory factors of science and mathematics professional characteristics teacher in Thailand

Abstract

The study aimed to study factor of professional teachers teaching Science and Mathematics in Thailand through the second-order confirmatory factor analysis. The samples were 132 Science and Mathematics teachers during 2019 academic year in Thailand. They were selected by using the Multi-stage random sampling. Research instrument included 86 items of the questionnaire asking professional teacher’s characteristic, the 5 Level Rating Scale with reliability of total issue = 0.943. Data were analysed by using the second-order confirmatory factor analysis. The findings were as follows: The second-order confirmatory factor analysis model regarding to characteristics of professional teachers in Science and Mathematics in Thailand, was fit and congruent the empirical data. (%2 = 83.490, df = 64, p-value = 0.0514, CFI = 0.989, TLI = 0.981, RMSEA = 0.048, SRMR = 0.049, and x 2 / df = 1.304 )Every factor and indicator in the model, was significant and supportive with each other.