Factors Analysis of Technology Leadership in Thailand Royal Awarded School

Abstract

Technology leadership is extremely important for these days. Education technology leadership is a key element to be successful in using technology in education. Often education technology, under the direction of an effective education technology leadership, is used as a change agent in school improvement initiative. The purposes of this research were to develop the school administrators’ technology leadership scale using an exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The samples were 380 administrators (principals, vice principals, and head of subjects) in Thailand royal awarded school. The research instrument was the technology leadership scale. Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency was estimated for the reliability of scale. The exploratory factors analysis was examined to determine the number of factors and indicators. The confirmatory factor analysis was performed to determine the construct validity by using Mplus 6.11. The major finding were as follows : 1) internal consistency scale was .87, 2) the exploratory factor analysis indicated that the technology leadership was composed of 6 factors : technological vision, technological support, promoting technology in teaching, administrative management technology, assessment and evaluation technology, and ethics technology and 3) the confirmatory factor analysis found that the model fit the structure from the exploratory factor analysis.