VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE CAREER READINESS INSTRUMENT IN MALAY VERSION

The development of a good instrument will assist in the assessment and further study processes, ensuring that the career needs and aspirations of students can be identified and managed more effectively. With assessment tools tailored to local culture and language, it will enhance the accuracy of research outcomes and help skill institutions provide more focused and beneficial training programs for students, thereby improving their employability in the job market. Thus, this research paper discusses the findings on the validity and reliability of the career readiness instrument in its Malay version. This study is a survey that employs a quantitative approach to test the validity and reliability of the Malay version of the career readiness instrument. The researcher conducted validity testing using the Content Validity Index (CVI) method, involving three experts. A pilot study was also conducted to obtain the reliability value of the instrument, involving 30 student samples from Vocational Colleges. Four elements of career readiness were studied: concern, curiosity, confidence, and negotiation, involving a total of 24 items from the original version. The findings indicate that the overall CVI value obtained is 0.86, reaching the recommended level, and the Cronbach's Alpha (α) value is 0.952, indicating that the instrument has high validity and reliability. In summary, the results of this study show that the Malay version of the career readiness instrument meets the criteria for validity and reliability and can be used by other researchers in the future to measure students' career readiness levels in Vocational Colleges.