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ICCS 2009 Technical Report - IEA

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Question 4 asked students to rate their level of agreement (again ranging from “strongly agree”to “strongly disagree”) with five statements concerning the law and the judiciary in theircountry. These five items were used to derive the scale students’ perceptions of the integrity of thelegal system (LEGSYS); students with higher scale scores were those who expressed greater faithin the integrity of the legal system. The scale reliability was 0.68 for the pooled <strong>ICCS</strong> sample,and the national reliabilities ranged from 0.42 to 0.73 (see Table 12.50). Table 12.51 showsthe item parameters that were used for scaling.The results of the confirmatory factor analysis of these three items sets are shown in Figure12.32. The model fit was not close. However, as judged by the RMSEA, it was still in anacceptable range. The low factor loading for Item AS2P04C (frequent intervention of governmentin legal decisions) suggests that this item did not measure LEGSYS (integrity of legal system) aswell as the other items did. The (positive) correlations between the three latent factors rangedfrom 0.42 (between UNDEMGOV, i.e., authoritarian government practices, and LEGSYS,integrity of the legal system) to 0.69 (between UNDEMGOV and OBAUTH, obedience toauthority).Figure 12.32: Confirmatory factor analysis of items measuring students’ perceptions of government and lawin AsiaAS2P01B0.450.741.00UNDEMGOV0.770.76AS2P01D0.400.80AS2P01E0.420.63AS2P01F0.360.69AS2P01G0.600.42AS2P02A0.480.72AS2P02C0.360.801.00OBAUTH0.88AS2P02D0.220.90AS2P02F 0.200.51AS2P04A0.480.721.00LEGSYS0.800.39AS2P04B0.360.73AS2P04C0.850.76AS2P04D0.47RMSEA 0.075NNFI 0.87CFI 0.88AS2P04E0.42252<strong>ICCS</strong> <strong>2009</strong> technical report

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