Abstract:
The development of educational undergraduate student competency, who is moving forward to be a practitioner level teacher in future days, which parallels with teacher demand of each local significance because of affecting to effective performance. The objective of this research was testing the validation of measurement model of assistant teachers competency according to needs assessment of schools in the eastern region. The sample group consisted of 300 teachers derived from multi-stage random sampling. The research instruments was a questionnaire on need assessment competency. The statistics used to analyze the data were confirmatory factor analysis. The results of this research found that: the validity for measurement model of assistant teacherscompetency according to needs assessment of schools in the eastern region. considered by: 1) fit model with higher .05 for p-value and all values of fit indices passed the evaluation criteria. 2) construct validity; 0.64-0.87 for factor loadings, 0.60-0.65 for average variance extracted, 0.82-0.91 for construct reliability and have discriminant validity of relationship between factors. Therefore, the competency of this research should be used by the institutes of teacher producing in the Eastern region to plan and design for improving curriculum, including to evaluation and assessment with expected competency suitably.