PERCEPTION OF STUDENT RIGHTS: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A NEW SCALE FOR MEASUREMENT
MIER-JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES TRENDS AND PRACTICES, cilt.16, sa.1, ss.215-241, 2026 (ESCI)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.52634/mier/2026/v16/i1/2972
- Dergi Adı: MIER-JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES TRENDS AND PRACTICES
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.215-241
- Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study outlines a thorough scale development process to assess university students' perceptions of student rights, following a rigorous three-stage methodology. In the first stage, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with 375 undergraduate students from Faculty X at University X, yielding a 35-item scale with a 10-factor structure. The analyses provided strong evidence for the scale's construct validity (KMO = 0.884, Bartlett's test p < 0.01). In the second stage, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on a demographically similar sample of 376 students to confirm the factor structure. The model fit indices (chi(2)/df = 1.8, RMSEA = 0.04, CFI = 0.94) and high reliability coefficient (alpha = 0.94) indicated good psychometric properties. In the third and final stage, data from 464 students were analysed, further reaffirming the scale's validity and reliability (chi(2)/df = 2.6, RMSEA = 0.06, CFI = 0.93, alpha = 0.95). Collectively, these results suggest that the developed 35-item scale is a valid and reliable tool for assessing university students' perceptions of student rights. This study makes both methodological and conceptual contributions to the literature while offering educational institutions a data-driven instrument to evaluate issues related to student rights.