Developing The Children’s Rights-Based Classroom Scale

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to develop the Children’s Rights-Based Classroom Scale. The participants of the study were comprised of 451 classroom teachers working at 12 primary schools in the Gaziantep province selected via cluster sampling method. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were conducted for attaining the construct validity of the scale. The scale structure consisting of four factors and 21 items was obtained as a result of EFA. It was identified that these four factors explain 76.217 % of the total variance. Of the CFA fit indices, GFI(.90), AGFI(.87), SRMR(.060) and NFI(.94) were at acceptable levels, X2/sd (CMIN/DF) (1.354), CFI(.98), IFI(.98), RMSEA(.042), were at perfect fit levels. The Cronbach Alpha value for the total scale was calculated as .89. The Cronbach Alpha values for the sub-factors of the scale were calculated as .943, .905, .917 and .934 for protection-support-communication, participation, environmental arrangements and teaching-learning process respectively. It can be stated based on the findings of the present study that a valid and reliable scale has been developed that enables the multi-dimensional assessment of the children’s rights-based structure of primary school classrooms.