Development of multilevel confirmatory factor analysis of 21st Century Skills Model for Undergraduate Students in Cambodia
Keywords:
21st century skills, Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis, Learning and innovation skills, media and technology skills, Life and career skillsAbstract
The purposes of this study was to develop 21st century skills model: (a) to develop a Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis model of 21st century skills for undergraduate students at student and course levels, and (b) to test construct validity of multilevel CFA of 21st century skills of undergraduate students with empirical data. A Five-Likert scale questionnaire was employed for collecting data. The participants were 500 Cambodian undergraduate students in academic year 2018-2019 derived from multistage random sampling.
The multilevel confirmatory factor analysis of 21st century skills for undergraduate student consisted of three mains components 1) Learning and innovation: creativity and innovation skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication and collaboration skills; 2) Information, media and technology literacy skills: Information literacy skills, media literacy skills, and information, communication and technology skills (ICT); 3) Life and career skills: flexibility and adaptability skills, initiative and self-direction skills, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity and accountability skills, and leadership and responsibility skills.
The developed model was consistent with the empirical data considering from c2 = 68.316, df = 43, relative chi-square (c2 /df) = 1.589, RMSEA = .034, CFI = .994, TLI = .984. The development of 21st century skills for undergraduate student comprised of three main components.
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