THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT FOR BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS’ MULTITASKING SKILLS IN THAILAND
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The purposes of this research were 1) to develop measurement instrument for basic education teachers’ multitasking skills in Thailand; and 2) to examine the quality of measurement instrument for basic education teachers’ multitasking skills in Thailand. The sample were 576 teachers in basic education from 6 regions in Thailand using multistage random sampling. Data were collected by 5 rating scale for measurement instrument for basic education teachers’ multitasking skills (23 items). The data were analyzed for the quality of measurement instrument, content validity, discrimination, construct validity by Confirmatory factor analysis, and reliability. The research findings were as followed:
1. Measurement instrument for basic education teachers’ multitasking skills was 5-point rating scale consisted of 3 dimensions, 24 items: 1) Time management skills consisted of 9 items, 2) Problem solving skills consisted of 7 items, and 3) Social skills consisted of 8 items.
2. The results of the quality inspection of the measurement instrument for basic education teachers’ multitasking skills found that the Content Validity was examined by experts (IOC = .60 - 1.00). The Discrimination ranged between .465 - .753 and Reliability Coefficients had .911. It also had Construct Validity as shown by the model fit with the empirical data (Chi-square (180, N = 576) = 210.131, p = .062, CFI = .996, TLI = .993, RMSEA = .017, SRMR = .025). The factor loading ranged from .081 to .836 and it had a significant at the .05 level. The result found that measurement model of basic education teachers’ multitasking skills had Construct Validity and R-square ranged from 77.70% to 84.40%.
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