The development and Rasch calibration of a scale to measure the school life skills of primary students with autism spectrum disorder /

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2025

Leung, Kit Chi Kitty

Hong Kong : The Education University of Hong Kong

Thesis

School life skills are skills that people can learn and use to strengthen their ability to solve developmental and educational problems faced in academic, social, vocational and health areas. Therefore, school life skills are effective in achieving the personal goals for school adaptation. Primary students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often encounter many difficulties in adapting to school due to their lack of school life skills, such as communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-regulation skills, self-management skills, self-care skills, executive function skills, and planning and decision-making skills, etc. These skills belong to the dimensions of social competence and school behavior. Currently, Hong Kong has a measure related to a school life skills scale for primary students with ASD. However, this measure lacks self-care skills and time management skills, and traditional methods have shortcomings in validating this measure. This study aimed to develop and calibrate a newly developed School Life Skills (Primary) Scale using the Many-Facet Rasch Model. The psychometric properties of each item and person of the scale were examined simultaneously and independently on a single logit scale, rather than obtaining a total score for a group of samples. Furthermore, various facets of the test, such as rater, in addition to person and item were estimated. The results of this study provided initial empirical evidence that the School Life Skills (Primary) Scale effectively differentiates between the differences in ability levels between low- and high-ability primary students with ASD on the measured latent construct of school life skills in two dimensions, namely, social competence and school behavior. Yet, student performance across gender, grade level, and school type, and the number of student participant appeared to have caused imitations to this study. Future studies need to recruit more participants to confirm the feasibility of using the School Life Skills (Primary) Scale as an assessment tool

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