Online ISSN: 2325-7466
2006
Triannual
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
United States

Articles

Evaluating the Validity and Reliability of a Student Self-Advocacy Teacher Rating Scale

  • Christopher M. Walick, Ph.D. (Author) Eastern Carver County School District
    Dr. Christopher Walick is a practicing school psychologist. He obtained his Ed.S. degree in School Psychology from the College of William and Mary, and his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. In his position as a school psychologists, Dr. Walick supports the mental health, academic, and transition needs secondary students in high school, care and treatment, and 18-21 special education transition programs. His research interests include delivering reading and math interventions for high school students, social skills instruction, social and emotional group interventions for adolescents with challenging behaviors, and post-secondary transition supports.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.351
Abstract
Self-advocacy skills are critical to high school and post-secondary success. Unfortunately, students with disabilities often times struggle with self-advocacy. While there are effective, evidence-based programs to teach self-advocacy skills, there are few scales that directly measure self-advocacy. The current research study was conducted to develop and evaluate a valid and reliable self-advocacy teacher-report scale. The scale was developed, piloted, and evaluated with high school students with disabilities. The study results from the study indicate that the self advocacy scale is a valid and reliable measure of a student’s self-advocacy behavior, and that the scale help explain a notable amount of variation of classroom success. Implications, future research and limitations are discussed.
Keywords
Disabilities, Factor Analysis, High School Students, Rating Scales, Self Advocacy, Statistical Analysis
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Walick, C. M. (2017). Evaluating the Validity and Reliability of a Student Self-Advocacy Teacher Rating Scale. Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 12(3), 120-128. https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.351

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