Developing and Validating a Teacher Classroom Justice Scale for the Iranian EFL Context

Classroom justice is the degree of perceived fairness in the distribution of outcomes, enactment of procedures, and teacher-student relationships in classrooms. This study aimed to develop and validate a Teacher Classroom Justice Scale (TCJS). After thoroughly reviewing the extant literature, scrutinizing the existing questionnaires, and interviewing experts in the field, a draft version of the instrument involving ۴۶ items was developed and pilot-tested with ۳۰ Iranian EFL teachers. Subsequently, another group entailing ۳۹۸ Iranian EFL teachers answered the scale, and reliability was examined for each of its components. Subsequently, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed that a three-factor solution about procedural, interactional, and distributive justice could best explain the scale. Finally, the EFA results were approved through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), which showed that the finalized TCJS consists of ۱۸ items and enjoys good psychometric properties of validity and reliability. Language instructors, researchers, and practitioners can use the present study findings by employing the TCJS to assess the perceptions of classroom justice in the particular domain of second/foreign language (L۲) education.

Keywords:

Dimensions of Classroom Justice , English as a Second/Foreign Language , Justice Principles , Scale Validation , Teachers’ Justice Perceptions