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| Development of primary school students' orthographic knowledge awareness scale: a preliminary examination of reliability and validity |
| LIU Liying1,2, XIE Yachun3, XU Qu3, LIU Panting3, YAO Mengmeng1, ZHANG Lei3, HONG Qin3, TONG Meiling3, CHI Xia3 |
| 1．School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China；2．Department of Child Health，Maanshan Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Maanshan 243000, Anhui Province, China；3．Department of Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210004, Jiangsu Province, China |
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Abstract Objective To develop the orthographic knowledge awareness scale of primary school students, and test its reliability and validity. The scale can be used as an assessment tool for the early identification of specific learning disorder children. Methods The scale framework was determined on the basis of the literature review, the expert interview, and the characteristics of Chinese character reading and writing education for primary school students in China. Then items were developed and amended to form the initial scale. And 280 students were selected as subjects to complete the scale pre-experiments. The reliability and validity of scale were tested. Results The scale consisted of strokes awareness test, radicals awareness test, and left-right reversal test. Also the scale was divided into three levels: grades 1−2, grades 3−4, and grades 5−6. The Cronbach α coefficients of each level were 0.972, 0.951, and 0.916, and the split-half reliability coefficients of each level were 0.876, 0.835, and 0.820, respectively. The test-retest reliability coefficients were 0.867, 0.891, and 0.887 in each levels. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) showed that Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) values of each level were 0.871, 0.848, and 0.843. EFA extracted 3 factors, whose cumulative contribution of variance accounted for more than 70%. The correlation coefficients of criterion validity of each level were 0.884, 0.894, and 0.917. Conclusion The orthographic knowledge awareness scale of primary school students has good reliability and validity, and the structure of the scale is reasonable. All the indexes meet the requirements of psychometrics. The scale can be used as a tool for evaluating the orthographic knowledge awareness of specific learning disorder children and for early identification of specific learning disorder with impairment in reading and written expression.
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