Development of Measurement Tool for Students' Innovator Characteristics in Educational Opportunity Extension Schools under the Tak Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The purposes of this research article were 1) to develop measurement tool for students' innovator characteristics in Educational Opportunity Extension Schools; and 2) to examine the quality of measurement tool for students' innovator characteristics in Educational Opportunity Extension Schools. The sample group consisted of 150 students in Educational Opportunity Extension Schools under the Tak Primary Educational Service Area Office 1from 31 schools, obtained from stratified random sampling. Data were collected using measurement tool for innovator characteristics that was a 4-level rating scale with 30 items. The quality of the measuring tool was examined, including content validity, discriminatory power, and construct validity using confirmatory factor analysis and precision. The results of the research found that 1) the tool for measuring the innovator characteristics of students in Educational Opportunity Extension Schools consisted of 7 areas: (1) creative play aspect, 5 items, (2) inspiration aspect, 5 items, (3) observation aspect, being able to see problems, 4 items, (4) knowledge seeking aspect, 5 items, (5) creative thinking aspect, 5 items, (6) commitment and continuous work aspect, 5 items, (7) ability to work with others aspect, 3 items, and 2) the tool for measuring innovator characteristics had content validity from evaluation by experts (IOC = 0.67 - 1.00) and had discriminating power between 0.24 - 0.77 with a reliability of 0.92, with construct validity from checking the consistency between the model and empirical data (χ2 (224, N = 150) = 259.516, p = .052, CFI = .972, TLI = .965, RMSEA = .040, SRMR = .073). The component weights had a value of 0.351 to 0.999 and were statistically significant at the .05 level for all items, except for item 6 which was not statistically significant. It showed that the tool for measuring innovator characteristics has construct validity. and the proportion of variance explained by each component ranged from 12.50 to 99.80 percent.