Student Risk Assessment Tool - Parent Form (SRAT-PF) Reliability and Validity Study

Early screening of primary school students’ social, emotional, and academic risks is critical to improving student achievement and preventing long-term problems and maladaptive outcomes. This study reports the development of the Student Risk Assessment Tool Parent Form (SRAT-PF), designed to assess academic, social, and emotional risk factors in primary school students between the ages of 6 and 10. The scale was administered to 505 parents in Ankara province, Türkiye, and tested using confirmatory factor analysis. The scale consists of 30 items: 7 in the academic risk dimension, 12 in the social risk dimension, and 11 in the emotional risk dimension. The analysis showed that the scale had acceptable values regarding model-data fit (RMSEA = 0.047; CFI = 0.971; TLI = 0.968; SRMR = 0.060). The Cronbach alpha coefficients of the scale sub-dimensions were .91, .97, and .97, respectively. Item-total correlations ranged from 0.617 to 0.792 for the academic factor, from 0.451 to 0.757 for the social factor, and from 0.395 to 0.629 for the emotional factor. These results support the validity and reliability of the SRAT-PF as a valid and reliable tool for assessing student risk.