- Development of Indicator on Information, Media and Technology Skills of Lower Secondary School Students in Schools under the Sakon Nakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 2

Abstract

The proposes of this research were to develop the indicators on information, media and technology skills of lower secondary school students in schools under the Sakon Nakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 and examine the congruence of the structural model on indicators of information, media and technology skills with the empirical data. The study was conducted into 2 phases. The first phase was the development indicators on information, media and technology skills of lower secondary school students by analyzing relevant documents and researches and interviewing 5 experts. The second phase was congruence examination between the developed hypothetical indicators with empirical data. The samples consisted of 350 teachers those teach lower secondary level, Schools under the Sakon Nakhon Primary Education Service Area Office 1. The research tool employed was a 5-level rating scale questionnaires with IOC between .80 – 1.00, discrimination value between .33 - .78 and overall reliability value at .97. The collected data was analyzed by using SPSS and LISREL program. The results of this study were as follows: 1) Information, media and technology skills of lower secondary school students comprised 3 main components, 13 sub-components and 66 indicators those can be classified into 16 indicators on Information skills, 20 indicators on media skills, and 30 indicators on technology skills. 2) The structural model on information, media and technology skills of lower secondary school students was related to the empirical data on chi-square = 43.33, degree of freedom (df) = 46, P-value = .58, Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) = .98, Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) = .96 and Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) = .00