A Development of the Causal Model for Readiness Preparation Toward Essential 21st Century Key Skills Aspect of Students at Educational Faculty: Loei Rajabhat University in Thailand

The purposes of this research were 1) to develop a causal model for readiness preparation toward essential 21st century key skills aspect of students at Loei Rajabhat University and 2) to examine the goodness of fit of the model with empirical data. The research samples were 600 of the second ? fourth year students at educational faculty: Loei Rajabhat University selected by two-stage random sampling. Variables consisted of 5 latent variables: readiness preparation toward essential 21st century key skills aspect, role of advisor, media influence, achievement motive, and future orientation. These latent variables were measured by 15 observed variables. The research instruments were questionnaires, which had reliability coefficient 0.89 to 0.95. Data were analyzed to obtain mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, skewness, kurtosis, Pearson’s product moment correlation, and checking the consistency of hypothesis model the empirical data and casual influence. ?The research findings were as follows: ?1. The causal model for readiness preparation toward essential 21st century key skills aspect of students at Loei Rajabhat University was fitted the empirical data. (c2 = 21.53, df = 55, p-value = .99, GFI = 1.00, AGFI = 0.99, RMR = 0.01, RMSEA = 0.01, CN = 2287.87) ? The variables in the model could describe the readiness preparation toward essential 21st century key skills aspect of students at Loei Rajabhat University variance with 89 percent. ?2. The direct and indirect effects of variables on had the standardized influence coefficient respectively as follows: 2.1) There were 3 variables which directly effected on readiness preparation toward essential 21st century key skills aspect of students at Loei Rajabhat University: media influence with the influence coefficient = 0.35; role of advisor = 0.14 with the statistics at .01 level, and achievement motive = 0.17 with the statistics at .05 level. 2.2) There were variables which the indirect effects on readiness preparation toward essential 21st century key skills aspect of students at Loei Rajabhat University as media influence with the influence coefficient = 0.43 with the statistics at .01 level and achievement motive with the influence coefficient = 0.14 with the statistics at .05 level.