The Development of Morale Indicators of Teachers in School under Secondary Educational Service Area Office 23

Abstract

                The purposes of this study were to develop the morale indicators of teachers, and examine the congruence between the developed structure model of morale indicators of teachers and empirical data. The research samples were 500 teachers in school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 23. The Samples were selected by using multistage random sampling. The research instruments were a 5 rating scales questionnaire with content validity valve between 0.60 to 1.00, the discriminative power between 0.21 and 0.78, and the reliability was 0.97. The collected data was analyzed by using the statistical package program. The results revealed that. The teachers’ morale indicators consisted of 5 principle components, 20 sub-components and 83 indicators. These indicators could be categorized as 1) 16 indicators of the compensation; 2) 20 indicators of the satisfaction of work; 3) 17 indicators of the working environment; 4) 11 indicators of the career path; and 5) 19 indicators of the administrator role. The structural model of indicators of teacher provided the congruence with the empirical data Chi-square = 93.27, degree of freedom (df) = 96, p-value = 0.55, goodness-of-fit index (GFI) = 0.98, adjusted goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) = 0.96 root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.000 Critical N (CN) = 685.72 and the factor loadings were between 0.39-0.94.