The Factor of School Administrators’ Digital - Era Leadership, Special Education Center in the Northeastern Region

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze the factors of school administrators’ digital - era leadership, special education center in the Northeastern region. The sample group consisted of 296 school administrators and teachers. The study instruments were a 5 - level rating scale questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The statistics used in the data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and exploratory factor analysis using Varimax rotation.

 The research result was found that the preliminary investigation of data prior to factor analysis showed the following: the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) Measure of Sampling Adequacy = 0.941, higher than 0.50. The factors were thus shown to be sufficiently relate. The statistical value of Bartlett’s Test for Sphericity found a Chi-square of 24439.947, which showed that   the correlations were significant at the 0.05 level and that the correlation matrix of the variables involved was sufficiently correlated. Dividing the factors with Principal Component Analysis (PC) and rotating the core of the factors resulted in 4 factors with a range of Eigen-value from 5.593 – 15.948, a total percentage of variance explained from 11.899 - 33.932 and a cumulative variance of 77.449%. The factors in descending order according to their score were: 1) Excellent in professional of digital citizenship practice had a factor loading between 0.616 – 0.917., 2) Digital - era learning culture had a factor loading between 0.687 – 0.831., 3) Digital literacy had a factor loading between 0.870 – 0.934, and 4) Digital – era vision had a factor loading between 0.701 – 0.829.