The Factors Model Development of Influencing the Success of External Quality Assessment of Basic Education School, The Office of Basic Education Commission

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to (1) develop a factors model influencing the success of the
external assessment of basic education school (2) to validate the goodness-of-fit of the factors model that
the researcher have developed together with the empirical data and (3) to examine the stability of the factors
model form with different groups by using mixed research method of qualitative and quantitative research.
There were two steps of studies. Step 1creating and adapting hypothetical factors model influencing the
success of the external assessment of basic education school by qualitative research. Step 2 validating the
goodness-of-fit of the factors model of hypothetical factors empirical data and examining the stability of the
factors model form by quantitative research. The 560 case studies used in this research were from the basic
education of schools under the Office of Basic Education Commission, which has been certified the external
quality assessment of basic education for the 3rd round with multi-stage random sampling. The data analysis
was analyzed by SPSS for Windows and Mplus version 7 program.
The results of this research were summarized as follows :The factors model influencing the success
of the external assessment of basic education school. Consist of the six variables including academic
leadership, organizational capacity, learning process management, school climate, learning behavior of
students, andthe success of the external assessmentof basic education school. All the variables were
evaluated from 18 observed variables. The goodness-of-fit test of the factors model was consistent with the
empirical data. There were direct influence factors that ordering by the highest to the smallest coefficients
; learning process management, academic leadership, organizational capacity; learning behavior of students,
and school climate. There were indirect influence factors that ordering by the highest to the smallest
coefficients ; academic leadership influencing through organizational capacity, learning process management,
learning behavior of student and school climate ; organizational capacity influencing through school climate
and learning process management influencing through learning behavior of student, and total influence
factors sorting the influence in descending order were academic leadership, learning process management
and organizational capacity, and the factors model Influencing the success of external quality assessmentof
basic education school wasthe invariance of the form in model.