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The Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure of School Skills

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kinnard White

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Students' Rating Scale of School Skills (SRSSS), consisting of 48 questions, is a self-report instrument designed to measure seven constructs, namely (a) attention, (b) memory, (c) language, (d) visual/spatial/sequential, (e) motor, (f) higher order cognition, and (g) social cognition. A total of 842 junior high school students completed the SRSSS. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed to examine the construct validity of this instrument. The result did not confirm the hypothesized 7-factor structure of the SRSSS. An exploratory factor analysis was then performed to examine the factor structure. The findings suggested that memory and language subscales may not be separable and some items should be deleted from the subscales. Although the results did not fully support the hypotheses, recommendations were made for future research on scales to measure these constructs.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 53, No. 2, 541-549 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164493053002024


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