Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the 21St Century Flexibility and Adaptability Skills of the School Administrators under the Office of the Basic Education Commission

Abstract

The skills of citizenship in the 21st century is an extremely important development that will pose perfectly, whether it's about knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that are undesirable. As well as education management, one of the key players in the school administrators who are considered to be the great generals in pushing the organs of education. Therefore, This research aims to develop the 21st Century Flexibility and Adaptability Skills of the school administrators under the Office of the Basic Education Commission and to examine the harmony of the 21st Century Flexibility and Adaptability Skills model of the school administrators with empirical data. The sample were administrators and secondary school teachers. Northeast Under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, 260 people. they were selected by multi-stage random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire with a confidence value of 0.91. The data were analyzed using basic statistical calculation and the second Confirmatory Factor Analysis with the LISREL package. The results of the research found that; The 21st Century Flexibility and Adaptability Skills of the school administrators had 5 components and 26 indicators. The weight of the components ranged from 0.83-0.97 and was statistically significant at 0.01 for all values. Arrange the weight of importance from greatest to least as follows: the creative conflict management skills, and the Adaptation skills to roles and responsibilities (0.97), the Flexibility work skills (0.95), the Adaptation skills to cultural differences (0.87), and Adaptation skills to changes (0.83). The components weight values of all indicators were high and statistically significant at the level. 0.01, and determined from the harmonious index values as follows 2 = 214.86, df = 225, Relative 2 = 0.95, P-value = 0.67, RMSEA = 0.00, GFI = 0.94, AGFI = 0.91, RMR = 0.01. Thus, it is shown the model of the 21st Century Flexibility and Adaptability Skills of the school administrators, that was developed can be used to describe the 21st Century Flexibility and Adaptability Skills of the school administrators and harmonize with empirical data.