The Development of Inspirational Test in Learning Science for Junior High School Students

Abstract

This study aimed at auditing the quality of inspirational test in learning situational science for junior high school students. The sample consisted of 709 students in schools under the Regional Education Office, Chaiyaphum province during the second semester of 2017 academic year. The research instruments were 2 types of inspirational test in learning situational science for junior high school students i.e., 4-choice inspirational test in learning situational science and 5-scale inspirational test in learning science. SPSS for Windows was employed to analyze descriptive statistics, index of item objective congruence, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient while Mplus Version 7.2 was implemented for exploratory factor analysis, second order confirmatory factor analysis, multitrait-multimethod analysis, and cross validation analysis.      

           The findings were as follows: According to construct validity check, the results can be described into five important points. 1) The result of multitrait-multimethod analysis was also consistent with empirical data (CFI=1.000, TLI=1.011, RMSEA=0.000, SRMR=0.003, and /df = 0.3672). The inspirational test in learning situational science demonstrated low level of convergent validity, validity, and discriminant validity. 2) The result of cross validation analysis revealed the approximation between statistics, index, and standardized factor loading coefficient of the inspirational test in learning science. And 3) the result of analyzing inspirational test in learning situational science employing known-group technique found its construct validity with statistically significant difference of .01, both in each aspect and as a whole.