FACTOR ANALYSIS OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT ABILITY IN THE DIGITAL ERA OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE BASIC EDUCATION COMMISSION

Abstract

This research aimed to explore the factors of learning management ability in the digital era of secondary teachers under the office of the basic education commission by using the exploratory research methodology. The sample of this research was 332 secondary school teachers in the lower northern part of Thailand that were sampled by stratified random sampling from school size. The data were collected by using a 5-level estimation scale questionnaire with a reliability of 0.95 of 54 items. Exploratory factor analysis was used to analyze the data. Then extracted components by Principal component analysis and orthogonally rotated components axis with Varimax rotation method.

The result showed that the composition of learning management ability in the digital era of secondary teachers consists of six components: 1) Digital learning design 2) Digital pedagogical management 3) Digital facilitate learning 4) Digital learning direction 5) Digital learning tool using and 6) Digital learning network. All of these components were able to explain the variance of learning management ability in the digital era of secondary teachers at 48.101 percent.