The Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Critical Thinking Disposition of Education Students

• Main Authors: Chotika Thamvsiet, Pasana Chularut, Wilailak Lanka, Pattananusorn Sathapronwong
• Format: Article
• Language: Thai
• Published: Mahasarakham University 2018-12-01
• Series: Journal of Education, Mahasarakham University
• Subjects: critical thinking disposition; confirmatory factor analysis
• Online Access: https://edu.msu.ac.th/journal/home/journal_file/505.pdf
• ISSN: 1905-9922; 1905-9922

The purpose of this study were to 1) study critical thinking disposition of education students 2) to study the confirmatory factors analysis of students. The populations in this study were 5,589 students, whom were first year students on academic year 2016 of 11 Rajabhat Universities in Northeastern region of Thailand. The sample of study was 1,594 students (73.1% female, 26.9% male) by multi-stage random sampling. Empirical data were collected by using interview expert form and critical thinking disposition questionnaire, which is a 1-5 rating scale questionnaire of 51 question items with reliability (α) of .954. For analyzing data, various statistics were used such as frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, factor analysis and content analysis. The results shown that 1) there are 7 factors of critical thinking disposition in Thais context: open-minded, systematic, truth seeking, self-confidence, maturity, empathy and persisting, 2) for analyzing data with second order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), found that the critical thinking disposition model of 7 factors were consist with the empirical data: =173.80 df=162 p=.25 GFI=0.99 AGFI=0.98 CFI=1.00 RMSEA=0.01 SRMR=0.00. The factor loadings of each factor was between 0.67-0.98, and the factor loadings of each indicator was between .34-.90 at the significant level of 0.01.