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ICCS 2009 Technical Report - IEA

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Table 12.20: Item parameters for scales reflecting students’ attitudes toward the influence of religion in societyScale or Item Question/Item Wording Delta Tau(1) Tau(2) Tau(3)How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements about religion?IS2P36A Religion is more important to me than what is happening 0.00 -2.35 0.32 2.04in national politicsIS2P36B Religion helps me to decide what is right and what is wrong 0.02 -2.34 0.10 2.23IS2P36C Religious leaders should have more power in society 1.00 -2.92 0.39 2.52IS2P36D Religion should influence people’s behavior towards others -0.07 -2.33 -0.29 2.63IS2P36E Rules of life based on religion are more important than 0.67 -2.71 0.31 2.40civil lawsFigure 12.12: Confirmatory factor analysis of items measuring students’ attitudes toward the influence ofreligion in societyIS2P36A0.251.00RELINF0.860.900.800.810.85IS2P36BIS2P36CIS2P36D0.190.350.34RMSEA 0.059NNFI 0.99CFI 0.99IS2P36E0.28National index of students’ socioeconomic backgroundThe national index of students’ socioeconomic background (NISB) was derived from the followingthree indices: highest occupational status of parents (HISEI), highest educational level ofparents in approximate years of education according to the ISCED classification (PAREDYRS),and the approximate number of books at home (with midpoints of category ranges as values).The process of imputing values for students who had missing data for only one of the threeindicators involved use of predicted values. It also involved a random component based on aregression on the other two variables that had been estimated for students with values on allthree variables. This imputation procedure was carried out separately for each national sample.After the resulting variables, including the imputed values, had been converted intoz-standardized variables (with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 for each nationaldataset), they were used for a principal component analysis that again was undertakenseparately for each weighted national sample.The final NISB scores, which were obtained as factor scores for the first principal component,had a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 for each country. Table 12.21 shows the factorloadings and reliabilities for each country.SCALING PROCEDURES FOR <strong>ICCS</strong> questionnaire ITEMS193

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