The validity and applicability of measuring ability, achievement, and occupational interest in assessing readiness for senior high school

• Main Author: Bibera, Victorius Q.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Readiness for school; Educational tests and measurements; Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/7063
• Institution: De La Salle University

The primary objective of this research study was to validate the constructs used in assessing readiness for Senior High School. The SHS Readiness Assessment is composed of three components: ability, achievement, and interest test. The measurement of specific abilities of SHS Readiness Assessment has undergone reliability estimation and construct validation based on the convergent comparison of the measure to National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE). Evidence of reliability and validity is seen in the SHS Readiness Assessment’s Core Competencies (Ability Test). The achievement potential measures of the SHS Readiness Assessment have also undergone criterion-related validation. The results show that the achievement potential measures are indeed capable of predicting school grades in Senior High School. The occupational interest scales of the SHS Readiness Assessment were checked for construct validation through confirmatory factor analysis. Proposed unidimensional factor structure did not show a good model fit. Additional statistical tests were ran on some factors to see if unidimensional interpretation will hold but it seems it cannot support a unidimensional interpretation. The SHS Readiness Assessment is a useful measurement tool to assess readiness for Senior High School provided that several procedures are accomplished to make it psychometrically sound.