THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS CHARACTERISTICS INDICATORS IN 21ST CENTURY IN NAKHON RATCHASIMA PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE 7

Abstract

          The purpose of this research were 1) to development of the Social Studies Teachers Characteristics Indicators in 21^st Century in Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Educational Service Area Office 7. 2) to Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Social Studies Teachers Characteristics in 21^st Century in Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Educational Service Area Office 7. The sample consists of 2,423 Social Studies Teachers in 2019. 500 Social Studies Teachers used the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) by multistage random sampling by the questionnaire “The development of the Social Studies Teachers Characteristics Indicators in 21^st Century. The research instruments were a rating scale, 66 variables. The Validity of the questionnaire (IOC) was 0.60 to 1.00, the discrimination was 0.429 to 0.762 and the reliability was 0.978. The descriptive statistics used in data analysis by statistical package. The research results were as follows. 1) The result of the Social Studies Teachers Characteristics Indicators in 21^st Century consisted of 6 factors with 66 variables, including. 2) The result of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the developed model of the indicators of the Social Studies Teachers Characteristics in 21^st Century in Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Educational Service Area Office 7 with the empirical data, the statistics value showed x2 = 1,002.88, df = 954, P - Value = 0.13229, GFI = 0.933, AGFI = 0.924, SRMR = 0.0166, RMSEA = 0.00923. That meant the model was fitted with the empirical data.