BINDU T V,PROF.AR. SARAVANAKUMAR
DOI: https://doi.org/Life skills play pivotal role in determining the personal, psychosocial, and academic growth of adolescents. The purpose of this research was to construct and validate, contextually appropriate and psychometrically reliable assessment tool to study the life skills of secondary school students of Kerala based on the World Health Organization’s ten core life skills. Multiphase research approach was employed by creating preliminary item pool through literature search and experts’ input, content validation, pilot testing, and factor analysis to determine the construct validity of the tool. Reliability of the tool was established by Cronbach’s alpha measure. The final tool exhibited robust psychometric properties with distinct factor structures mapping onto the ten core life skills and high internal consistency between subscales, which can be used by stakeholders of education to assess the life skills of secondary school students’ and design appropriate intervention strategies to develop the life skills in them.
