Development and validation of the reliability and validity of a screening questionnaire for children aged 5-10 years for pragmatic competence
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2025.04.011
- VernacularTitle:5～10岁儿童汉语语用能力筛查问卷的编制及信度效度验证
- Author:
Chenye FAN
1
;
Jiaxin WANG
1
;
Haidan LU
1
Author Information
1. 华东师范大学教育学部康复科学系(上海 200062)
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Children;
Pragmatic competence;
Questionnaire development;
Testing of reliability and va-lidity
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2025;33(4):353-358
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To develop a screening questionnaire on the pragmatic competence of children aged 5-10 years old in the context of Chinese language and culture,and to verify its reliability and validity.Methods The revelant questionnaire was developed by compiling and screening the questions on the basis of the literature research method,then 376 ordinary children aged 5-10 years in kindergartens and primary schools in Shanghai were used as subjects for the pre-experiment,and the results of the pre-experiment were analysed by the item analysis and invalid items were excluded.Finally,the questionnaire was formally evaluated by 414 ordinary children and the results of the evaluation were validated for reliability and validity.Results The initial questionnaire contained 49 items,and 43 items were retained after item analysis,covering four dimensions:pragmatic language ability(16 items),social-emotional regulation ability(17 items),general rule ability(6 items),and extra-verbal comprehension ability(4 items).The Cronbach's alpha for the overall questionnaire was 0.979,and the Cronbach's alpha for each dimension ranged from 0.874 to 0.962,the questionnaire had good reliability.The correlation coefficients between each item and total questionnaire ranged from 0.637 to 0.806,and the correlation coefficients between each dimension as well as each dimension and total questionnaire ranged from 0.669 to 0.920,which reached a moderately high degree of correlation.The validated factor analysis was with an x2/df value of 2.945 and an RMSEA value of 0.075 which had a good fit.Conclusion The questionnaire has a certain degree of reliability and validity,and a more scientific and effective screening questionnaire for children's pragmatic competence can be developed by optimising the struc-ture.
