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  • Early childhood education
  • Developmental psychology

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  • Writing readiness is crucial for academic success in early learners.
  • Standardized assessments are needed to evaluate writing readiness in kindergarteners.
  • The Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context (WRITIC) was developed to measure this skill.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the test-retest and inter-rater reliability of the WRITIC.
  • To determine the convergent validity of the WRITIC using established developmental tests.

Main Methods:

  • Test-retest reliability assessed with 59 children.
  • Inter-rater reliability assessed with 72 children.
  • Convergent validity assessed with 119 children, correlating WRITIC scores with the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration and the Nine-Hole Peg Test.

Main Results:

  • Excellent test-retest and inter-rater reliability (ICC: 0.92–0.95) for the 'Task performance' subdomain.
  • Fair to good reliability for other subdomains (ICC: 0.70–1.0, Kappa: 0.30–0.89).
  • Moderate correlations (r: 0.34–0.40) with visual-motor integration and fine motor tests, comparable to existing literature.

Conclusions:

  • The WRITIC is a reliable assessment tool for writing readiness, showing stability over time and across different raters.
  • Moderate correlations support the WRITIC's construct validity, confirming its ability to measure writing readiness.
  • The WRITIC is a valuable tool for identifying kindergarteners' writing readiness.