Development of Information Ethics Model for Elementary School Administrators

Abstract

In this study, the researchers aimed to identify and examine the key factors and indicators of information ethics for elementary school administrators under the administration of the Office of Primary Educational Service Area in Thailand. A mixedmode research design was employed. The researchers conceptualized information ethics factors and indicators by analyzing documents and related past studies, followed by a survey of 840 respondents with the purpose of testing the goodness-of-fit of the identified information ethics factors and indicators with the empirical data. The results from the first phase indicate that there was a total of 16 indicators derived from the five factors in an information ethics model. The measurement model of information ethics factors and indicators were found to be parallel to the empirical data, with χ2 = 47.221, df = 33, χ2/df = 1.430, p-value = 0.0518, RMSEA = 0.023, SRMR = 0.016, CFI = 0.999, TLI = 0.996.