The confirmatory factor analysis of teacher’s research motivation scale

Autor: Ujsara Prasertsin
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Contemporary Educational Researches Journal. 8:101-106
ISSN: 2301-2552
Popis: The purpose of the research is to develop the measurement of motivation scale of in class action research conducted byschool teachers. The sampling includes 403 teachers, subordinated to the Office of The Basic Education Commission. Datacollection was conducted through questionnaires of 20 questions, which were designed into five levels following to themotivation scale in research measurement. This questionnaire consists of three latent variables with nine questions ofintrinsic motivation, six questions of failure avoidance and five questions of extrinsic motivation. The purpose ofconfirmatory factor analysis is to test the construct validity of research latent variables that found the harmony correlation ofempirical data contained in this research model. Moreover, the correlation matrix of 20 observed variables shows the correlation among latent variables of intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation with the significant level of statistic correlation at 0.05. The highest value of correlation scored 0.696 is founded on observed variables of the intrinsic motivationlatent variable. Keywords: Confirmatory factor analysis, teacher, research motivation
Databáze: OpenAIRE