Abstract:
The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the direct, indirect, and overall influences of causal factors affecting the success of basic education institutions, and 2) to examine goodness-of-fit between the linear structural equation model of success for basic education institutions developed by the researcher and the empirical data. A sample was 400 secondary school administrators under Office of the Basic Education Commission as selected by multi-stage random sampling. The instrument used to collect data was a 70-item questionnaire which had a reliability coefficient of 0.91, discrimination power values ranging from 0.38 to 0.77 and construct validity. Statistics used to analyze data included fundamental ones, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model analysis. The findings of the study were as follows: 1) the concerned situation estimated its highest indirect and overall influence on success of basic education institutions as 0.93. Secondary were: transformational leadership of school administrators which estimated its direct and overall influence as 0.73, motivation of school administrators which estimated its indirect and overall influence as 0.33, and the characteristic of school administrators which estimated its overall influence on success of basic education institutions as 0.32. The proportion of reliability of causal factors could explain 69.00% of the success of basic education institutions. 2) The linear structural equation model of success for basic education institutions developed by the researcher had goodness-of-fit with the empirical data (x2 =86.92, df=96, P-value=0.74, GFI=0.98, AGFI=0.95, CFI=1.00, SRMR=0.02, RMSEA=0.00, CN=621.17).