Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to develop the casual model of learning organization in basic education school, to examine the goodness of fit of the model to the empirical data, and to test invariance of the model of the learning organization in basic education school. The research responders were school directors and teachers. Variables consisted of two endogenous latent variables: learning organization and organizational culture and three exogenous latent variables: school's vision and strategies, internal management, and technology and information learning support. These latent variables were measured by 19 observed variables. Data were collected by questionnaires having reliability for each variable ranging from 0.74--0.92 and analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Person's product moment correlation and LISREL analysis. The major finding were as follows: 1) The causal model of learning organization in basic education school consisted of direct effect varivable: organizational culture as well as indirect effect variables: school's vision and stratigies, and technology and information learning support which intervened organizational culture. The highest total affecting variable was organizational culture. 2) The overview of the causal model of learning organization in basic education school was fitted with empirical data having Chi-square = 48.14, p = 0.43, df = 47, GFI = 0.98, AGFI = 0.93 and RMR = 0.012. The variables in the model accounted for 96% of learning organization in basic education school. 3) The causal model of learning organization in basic education school had invariance sizes of school, Chi-square = 256.03, p = 0.81, df = 277, GFI = 0.90, NFI = 0.98, RFI = 0.97, and RMR = 0.013 There was invariance of causal relationship matrics parameter between the internal latent variables, the parameter of causal relationship from the external latent variables to the internal latent variables and the variance-covariance matrics parameter between the error of measuring internal latent variables.