Development of a General Legal Confidence Scale: A First Implementation of the Rasch Measurement Model in Empirical Legal Studies

Pleasence, PT; Balmer, Nigel J.

doi:10.1111/jels.12212

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“…The small MNSQ infit score shows the value of "suitability" items in measuring students' self-reflection after taking vertebrate zoology course. Item fit shows that the item statement is able to explore individual student abilities according to their respective conditions (Pleasence & Balmer, 2019) This item can sort students into groups of students with specific abilities (Lambri et al, 2019).…”

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Self-Reflection Assessment in Vertebrate Zoology (SRAVZ) Using Rasch Analysis

Yuhanna

Muhdhar

Gofur

et al. 2021

JPII

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Instruments that are valid, reliable, and have high consistency are needed to measure studentsâ€™ self-reflection. The Self-Reflection Assessment in Vertebrate Zoology (SRAVZ) was developed to explore studentsâ€™ self-reflection and abilities in the vertebrate zoology course. It is essential to test the instrumentâ€™s validity before measuring studentsâ€™ abilities so that data bias does not occur. This study aims to determine the validity, whether the items are fit or misfit, and the difficulty level of SRAVZ items. SRAVZ is developed by ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). The SRAVZ consists of 24 items tested on 135 students who have taken the vertebrate zoology course. Analysis of the Rasch model using Winstep version 4.5.2. The Rasch model shows the item reliability value at 0.97. The Cronbach alpha value at 0.94 with PTMEA Corr shows a positive value, unidimensional 48.1%. The separation index of 5.6 means that the level of grouping the items is very good. The mean square infit for SRAVZ was 0.59-1.96, and the mean square outfit value is 0.59-2.16. Data analysis shows that 24 SRAVZ items have 22 fit items and two misfit items (S3 and S5). Item numbers S3 and S5 must be excluded from the SRAVZ construction. Total items used to measure studentsâ€™ self-reflection in the vertebrate zoology course were 22 items. The most difficult item is S3, and the easiest item is S6. Thus, the data indicate that the valid and reliable SRAVZ is in the good, effective, and high level of consistency category

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Self-Reflection Assessment in Vertebrate Zoology (SRAVZ) Using Rasch Analysis

Yuhanna

Muhdhar

Gofur

et al. 2021

JPII

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“…Simultaneously, a number of relevant additional frameworks have emerged to explain and assess citizens’ capacity and capabilities for engaging with social security and associated legal processes, frequently drawing on broader ideas about health and financial literacy. These include administrative literacy (Döring, 2021); administrative capital (Masood & Nisar, 2021); social insurance literacy (Ståhl et al., 2021); and legal capability and general legal confidence (Pleasence & Balmer, 2019b). Resolving conceptual inconsistencies was one of the valuable contributions of the theoretical model of AB set out by Herd and Moynihan (2019), in that it explicitly draws together insights from a range of existing bodies of research.…”

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The learning, compliance, and psychological costs of applying for the Disability Support Pension

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The Disability Support Pension (DSP) provides financial support to more than 750,000 Australians with permanent physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairments that prevent them from engaging in employment. We sought to characterise the information, compliance and psychological costs of applying for the DSP. A cohort of 518 DSP applicants and recipients completed a questionnaire capturing medical, disability, benefit and demographic data. The questionnaire also included an Administrative Burden (AB) scale that was co‐developed with disability advocates and people with lived experience of DSP processes. Most respondents reported high or very high scores on three sub‐scales assessing information, compliance and psychological costs. In logistic regression models, DSP applicants reported greater costs than DSP recipients across all three scales. People with poorer health‐related quality of life, younger age and less education reported higher costs, consistent with the observation of an inequitable distribution of administrative burden in AB theory. All three scales had acceptable reliability. Study findings suggest that DSP applicants find the application process challenging and stressful. These effects are more pronounced in people who have applied for the DSP than those currently receiving the DSP, and in those with lower human capital.

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“…Recently, an attempt was made to develop standardized measures of legal capability using modern psychometric approaches. 45 This research focused on "legal confidence," a domain-specific form of "self-efficacy" that is "concerned with judgments of personal capability." 46 This new research yielded three confidencerelated scales: General Legal Confidence (glc), Legal Self-Efficacy (lef), and Legal Anxiety (lax).…”

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Justice & the Capability to Function in Society

Pleasence

Balmer

2019

Daedalus

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All over the world, civil legal problems are ubiquitous. But while all groups in every society that has been studied experience civil justice problems, these problems and their consequences do not fall equally. Socially disadvantaged people report more problems, more serious problems, and more negative consequences from them. The lack of legal capability-the lack of the capacity to understand and act on justice problems-plays a key role in creating these inequalities. A growing evidence base should support and enable global, national, and other policy-makers to achieve stated policy goals and enable people to respond effectively to the myriad legal problems that can threaten their aspirations and well-being.

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Development of a General Legal Confidence Scale: A First Implementation of the Rasch Measurement Model in Empirical Legal Studies

Cited by 10 publications

References 46 publications

Self-Reflection Assessment in Vertebrate Zoology (SRAVZ) Using Rasch Analysis

Self-Reflection Assessment in Vertebrate Zoology (SRAVZ) Using Rasch Analysis

The learning, compliance, and psychological costs of applying for the Disability Support Pension

Justice & the Capability to Function in Society

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