Development and Validation of Student Class Satisfaction Scale for Secondary School Students

Students’ class satisfaction is a representative indicator of an educational outcome in school, and accurately measuring its level possibly benefits evaluation and enhancement of educational quality of school education. In such a context, this study aimed to develop and validate a Student Class Satisfaction Scale (SCSS) that comprehensively and systematically covers crucial factors of class in Korean secondary schools. Based on thorough literature review, the concept of student class satisfaction was represented by the ‘construct maps’ each of which elaborated the 4 domains of ‘Objective’, ‘Contents’, ‘Method’, and ‘Outcome’. The preliminary version of the scale was developed by specifying each domain into 6 Likert-type items (the total of 24 items). The content validity of the items was reviewed and supplemented by an expert group in the field of educational measurement and evaluation. Subsequently, a pilot test using the preliminary version of scale was conducted on 919 secondary school students of Seoul, Gyeonggi, Chungbuk, Daejeon, and Gyeongnam. Using the data, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and analysis of reliability coefficient were conducted. Consequently, the finalized SCSS (the total of 20 items) was proven to be well-constructed in terms of construct validity and reliability (factor model fit-statistics of TLI=.951, CFI=.961, RMSEA =.069, SRMR =.030, and each item’s factor loadings ranging from .682 to .902; Cronbach’s alpha coefficient = .974).