Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Perceived Educational Effectiveness Scale for Parents of Students with Hearing Impairment

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop an indigenous scale to determine the perception of the parents of students with hearing impairment regarding the educational effectiveness and to establish the psychometric properties of the effectiveness of educational services scale for parents of the students with hearing impairment. Quantitative paradigm was used to conduct this research. Parents of students with hearing impairment who were enrolled in Government special education institutions in Punjab Province were considered as a population of this study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample for this study. 500 number of parents of students with hearing impairment were selected as a sample of this study. An indigenous scale was developed by the researchers. 40 statements were rated against five point likert scale. Confirmatory factor analysis was carried out through IBM SPSS AMOS (Analysis of moment structure) version 25.0 using structural equation modeling (SEM).