Social Science and Human Research Bulletin

This research aims to develop and validate the T Religious Moderation instrument for Islamic Higher Education Students through exploratory and confirmatory analysis. The study involved 420 Student. This research collected data using survey techniques with Likert Scale parameters ranging from 1 to 5. The study's empirical findings revealed that 24 of the Religious Moderation instrument's 37 items were analyzed and divided into four dimensions. The initial testing results using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) showed that the sample feasibility test through the KMO value and the MSA inter-item correlation value was greater than 0. 50. Similarly, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) testing yielded 24 valid items based loading factor more than 0.30. 

Instrument development, EFA, CFA, religious moderation.

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