Verification of the Instrument of Climate Literacy Knowledge among Future Teachers: Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)

This study was conducted to verify a measuring model of climate literacy knowledge among future teachers in Malaysia. Respondents consisted of 500 final semester students from nine faculties at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia, who had been selected by using the stratified sampling technique. The variables examined in this study include climate change literacy knowledge in terms of environment, economy and social values. The data were analysed descriptively to get the reliability of Cronbach's Alpha values, and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to get the three-factor solution, using SPSS 22 and AMOS 20 software. The results of the analysis showed that Cronbach's Alpha value was at a high classification of more than 0.80. The CFA analysis results of the measuring model showed that the three-factor solution was appropriate and acceptable based on the suggested indicators. Therefore, the measuring model developed were appropriate to be used for the measuring of climate literacy knowledge of future teachers in public university in Malaysia and other developing countries.