Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Prose: Pronunciation
Specific context:
Health Promotion
Validation sample population age:
Adolescents: 10 to 17 years
Modes of administration in validation study
:
Face-to-face
Time Cut-off:
0 minutes
Assessment:
Objective
Psychometrics
Number of items:
66
Sample size in validation study:
1533
Administration Time (minutes):
2 minutes
Language of validated version:
English
Main article reference
Davis, T., Wolf, M., Arnold, C., Byrd, R., Long, S., Springer, T., Kennen, E., & Bocchini, J. Development and validation of the rapid estimate of adolescent literacy in medicin (REALM-Teen): A tool to screen adolescents for below grade reading in health care settings.
Corresponding author
Terry Davis
Description
A word recognition test in English that can be used as a brief literacy-screening tool in health care settings
Year Measure first Published: 2006
About This Measure
Measure style:
REALM Family
Categorical scoring:
Yes
Scoring categories:
5 categories: score of 0-105 = below 3rd grade, 106-139 = 4th-5th grade, 140-169 = 6th-7th grade, 170-183 = 8th-9th grade, and 184-213 = 10th or above
Reliability: Test-retest correlation:
0.98
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
United States of America
Content validity:
Words taken from AAP adolescent patient education materials
Criterion validity:
Based on correlations b/t REALM-teen raw scores and the SORT-R (r=0.93) and WRAT-3 raw scores (r=0.83).
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha):
0.94
