The Development of Teachers’ Teamwork Indicators in Schools under The Office of Buengkan Primary Educational Service Area

Amornrat Singto, Apisit Somsrisuk, Waro Phengsawat

Abstract

The purposes of this study were (1) to develop Indicators of teachers’ teamwork in schools under the Office of Buengkan Primary Educational service area ; and (2) to examine validity of the Structural Equation Model of teachers’ teamwork in schools and empirical data. The study consisted of two phases: phase 1) the development of Instructional teachers’ teamwork indicators of teachers by using the literature review; phase 2) was to validate of the Structural Equation Model of teachers’ teamwork in schools by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA).The data were collected from a sample of 500 teachers by Multistage Random Sampling. The research instruments were: the questionnaire of rating scales, the content validity were 0.60 to 1.00, the discriminative power were 0.22 to 0.89 and the reliability was .978 by cronbach’s alpha coefficient, the data was analyzed by using the basic statistical and LISREL program. The findings were as follows: 1. The teachers’ teamwork indicators consisted of 5 principle component, 20 sub-components and 70 indicators with; the participating with 20 indicators, the goals with 12 indicators, the communication with 19 indicators, the trust with 13 indicators and the interaction with 6 indicators. 2. The Structural Equation Model of Instructional teachers’ teamwork indicators has the goodness of fit with the empirical data as displayed by the statistical values as follows : Chi-square = 76.55, degree of freedom (df) = 77, p = .49307 goodness-of-fit index (GFI) = .98, adjusted goodnessof- fit index (AGFI) = .96, and root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = .00 and Critical N (CN) = 693.91 and the factor loading were 0.55 – 0.81 of 70 indicators.