The Reliability and Validity of the ‘Smiley’ Scale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11159587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Davies (0000-0002-6875-3100, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Ivy Brember (University of Manchester) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-454 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-1926 • E-ISSN: 1469-3518 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0141192940200406 |
| OpenAlex | W2024784094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
The ‘Smiley’ scale was devised to measure primary school children's attitudes to school as part of the Junior School Project by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986. It appeared potentially useful, in both content and format, for our purpose. It was found that no reliability or validity study had been carried out on it. To rectify this, one was done. Internal consistency reliability was found to be satisfactory when tested on 641 Year 2 and 585 Year 6 children. Test‐retest reliability was considered by readministering the scale to 172 Year 2 and 155 Year 6 children after a 1 week interval. The Year 6 children showed more consistency in their responses than the Year 2 children. The correlation coefficients of the totals on the two occasions were 0.71 and 0.87 respectively. The validity of 172 Year 2 and 167 Year 6 children's responses was tested by comparing them to the teachers' perceptions of the children's attitudes using the ‘Smiley’ scale. Results showed very few significant correlations between the children's and teachers' responses for the Year 2 children although there were more significant correlations for the Year 6 children. This may be due to teachers' lack of awareness of children's attitudes to school
Developmental psychology · Geography · Internal consistency · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Scale (ratio) · Smiley · Test (biology) · Test validity · Validity · Child Development and Digital Technology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 1997 - 2017 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |