Brief Report: Creation of a Transition Readiness Scale for Adolescents with ASD.
Rebecca Elias, Caitlin M Conner, Susan W White
PMID 35138556WHAT IT FOUND
The new transition readiness scale held together well, but students rated themselves more ready than caregivers.
Negatively worded questions were weak and should be reworded before use.
Key findings
01The student and caregiver versions showed very good reliability.
02Students' mean score was 81.00, higher than caregivers' mean score of 69.47.
03The negatively worded items performed poorly for both versions.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The sample was small and preliminary, so these psychometric results are not enough to confirm the scale for routine use. The students were male-dominated, and all other informants were mothers, so the findings may not reflect other genders or other caregivers. All participants were interested in postsecondary education or uncertain about it, so the scale may not apply to students not considering postsecondary school. The negatively worded items did not work well, and the authors proposed rewording them. Only baseline data were used, so the scale was not tested for change after transition programming. The anxiety correlation did not meet the hypothesized concurrent validity range, so concurrent validity was not fully supported.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this scale as ready for routine clinical use. The study was a small pilot, and the negatively worded items did not work well.