Measuring Quality of Early Childhood Education Life: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Quality of School Life Questionnaire in ECE Setting
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200515.054How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- quality of early childhood education (ECE) life, internal consistency test, confirmatory factor analysis
- Abstract
Currently, early childhood education is growing rapidly. Parents and even every society members begin to realize that early childhood education becomes important in an attempt to stimulate child both in physical, cognitive, affective, as well as psychosocial development. The aim of this research is to investigate and to build a tool of quality of early childhood education (ECE) life from parents’ perspective. Data were collected from 731 parents of students of ECE in Jakarta. In order to test the validity and reliability, this research using content validity by expert judgement, internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analysis. The result showed from seven dimensions of Quality of ECE Life, there are three dimensions are fit, and four dimensions still require comparison test with different samples to obtain more conclusive results. It can be said that this quality of ECE life measurement tool still need to be field tested in a broader scope with various sample of different ECE to set an instrument that truly valid and reliable to measure quality of ECE life.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Monika AU - Erik Wijaya AU - Meike Kurniawati PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/20 TI - Measuring Quality of Early Childhood Education Life: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Quality of School Life Questionnaire in ECE Setting BT - Proceedings of the Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 297 EP - 303 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200515.054 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200515.054 ID - 2020 ER -