Factor Analysis of Writing Ability of Upper Secondary School Students under Chiang Mai Secondary Education Service Area Office
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The purpose of this research was to analyze the factors of writing ability of upper secondary school students under Chiang Mai Secondary Education Service Area Office. The sample consisted of 860 upper secondary school students form 5 schools under Chiang Mai Secondary Education Service Area Office, obtained through Multi-Stage Random Sampling. The research tool used to collect the data was a writing ability test, which was a subjective test. Scoring followed the writing ability assessment criteria in all of the 5 components. The data analysis employed descriptive statistics analysis, Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis using Mplus 7.4 Program.
The results of the research revealed that the writing ability of the upper secondary school students under Chiang Mai Secondary Education Service Area Office consisted of 5 components: (1) content presentation, (2) story composition, (3) vocabulary usage, (4) language usage, and (5) language mechanism. Also, the results of the consistency examination of the model for measuring the writing ability of the upper secondary school students showed that the model was consistent with the empirical data when the Chi-square value () = 66.046 at degree of freedom (df) = 61, Significance level = 0.307, Comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.984, Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) = 0.980, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) = 0.010, Standardized Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR) = 0.025. The factor with the highest factor loading was the content presentation (0.828, R2=0.686), followed by the language usage (0.569, R2=0.324), the language mechanism (0.555, R2=0.308), the story composition (0.519, R2=0.269) and the vocabulary usage (0.248, R2=0.062), respectively.
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