Perception of Student Rights: Development and Validation of a New Scale for Measurement

This study outlines a thorough scale development process to assess university students’ perceptions of student rights, following a rigorous three-stage methodology. In the first stage, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with 375 undergraduate students from Faculty X at University X, yielding a 35-item scale with a 10-factor structure. The analyses provided strong evidence for the scale’s construct validity (KMO = 0.884, Bartlett’s test p < 0.01). In the second stage, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on a demographically similar sample of 376 students to confirm the factor structure. The model fit indices (χ²/df = 1.8, RMSEA = 0.04, CFI = 0.94) and high reliability coefficient (α = 0.94) indicated good psychometric properties. In the third and final stage, data from 464 students were analysed, further reaffirming the scale’s validity and reliability (χ²/df = 2.6, RMSEA = 0.06, CFI = 0.93, α = 0.95). Collectively, these results suggest that the developed 35-item scale is a valid and reliable tool for assessing university students’ perceptions of student rights. This study makes both methodological and conceptual contributions to the literature while offering educational institutions a data-driven instrument to evaluate issues related to student rights.