Development of the Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context (WRITIC)

ABSTRACTThis article describes the development of the Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context (WRITIC), a measurement evaluating writing readiness in Dutch kindergarten children (5 and 6 years old). Content validity was established through 10 expert evaluations in three rounds. Construct validit...

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Published in:Physical & occupational therapy in pediatrics 2014-11, Vol.34 (4), p.443-456
Main Authors: Hartingsveldt, Margo J. van, Vries, Liesbeth de, Cup, Edith HC, Groot, Imelda JM de, Sanden, Maria WG Nijhuis-van der
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attention
Child
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Feasibility Studies
Female
Handwriting
Humans
Male
Motor Skills
Netherlands
prehension
psychometric testing
school performance
Task Performance and Analysis
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Summary:ABSTRACTThis article describes the development of the Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context (WRITIC), a measurement evaluating writing readiness in Dutch kindergarten children (5 and 6 years old). Content validity was established through 10 expert evaluations in three rounds. Construct validity was established with 251 children following regular education. To identify scale constructs, factor analysis was performed. Discriminative validity was established by examining contrast groups with good (n = 142) and poor (n = 109) performers in paper-and-pencil tasks. Content validity was high with 94.4% agreement among the experts. Two reliable factors were found in the performance of paper-and-pencil tasks with Cronbach's alphas of 0.82 and 0.69 respectively. The contrast groups differed significantly in two WRITIC subdomains: "Sustained attention" and "Task performance". Our findings indicated that the WRITIC is feasible for use in the classroom.
ISSN:0194-2638
1541-3144
DOI:10.3109/01942638.2014.899285