Developing Safety Indicators in Primary Schools Under the Basic Education Commission
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This research article aims to (1) develop safety indicators in primary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission (2) develop and verify the model of safety indicator in primary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission and (3) study Concurrent Validity, Sensitivity and Specificity of safety indicators in primary schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The sample group in this research was for 900 persons. Using the LISREL 8.72 program to analyze the confirmed components, test the consistency of the linear structure model and empirical data of safety in primary schools.
Findings are as follows: safety indicators in elementary schools comprise of 4 main indicators, and 14 sub indicators as follows: (1) the Physical Environment indicator has 5 sub indicators (2) Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Preparedness indicator has 3 sub-indicators (3) Safety Course indicator has 3 sub-indicators (4) Protection and Rescue indicator has 3 sub-indicators. The results of the consistency test of the linear structure model, indicators and empirical data found that there is consistency. The indicator values χ2 = 131.46, df = 54, p = 0.00000, GFI = 0.98, AGFI = 0.96, CFI = 1.00, RMSEA = 0.040 and χ2/df = 2.43 and the results of the Concurrent Validity analysis of the main indicator by comparing between different primary school groups that there are safety in schools, it is found that the main indicator has an average score between safe high school groups, moderate safe school groups and low safe school groups indicated statistically significant differences (p <.05).
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