The Assessment of Self Care Skills Test For 3-6 Year Old Children: Reliability and Validity

The aim of this research is to develop a tool to measure the self-care skills of 3-6 years-old preschoolers. The sample included 211 children from randomly-chosen two private and four public preschools. The validity of the test was ensured by construct and content validity analyses. Based on the explanatory factor analysis, no item was excluded and the test consisted of 50 items. Also, the test was divided into six sub-categories (hygiene and self-care, eating, relaxation, dressing, self-protection from accidents, the arrangement of the environment) based on expert views. Maximum Likelihood Confirmatory Factor Analysis was done to test the goodness-of-fit index. The fit-index values showed that test items were assigned suitably of the subtests. Internal consistency coefficient, test-retest reliability, and split-test reliability were used for the reliability of the test. High Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients computed separately for three, four, five and six-year-olds, the result of the test-rest analysis and Spearman-Brown coefficients revealed satisfactory values for the reliability of the test. The results concluded that The Assessment of Self-Care Skills Test is a valid and reliable tool designed to measure self-care skills of three to six-year-old children