Establishing the reliability of the smiley face assessment scale : test-retest

The purpose of this study was to establish the reliability of the Smiley Face Assessment Scale administered at Camp Koinonia which is an outdoor camping program for children with multiple disabilities in the Knoxville area. The subjects for this study were 100 campers attending the camp during April 6-11, 1997. The Smiley Face Assessment Scale, which is a self-report instrument with a pictorial response system (five faces), was used to measure the degree of camper's satisfaction level concerning their camp experiences. The instrument was distributed and collected by each camper’s counselor and each camper completed the form twice (test-retest reliability) on April 10 and 11, 1997. Pearson's Correlation Coefficient was utilized to determine the relationships between the results of the whole group of campers, each cabin group, male and female campers, and anonymous and anonymous campers on the two consecutive days. All the data provided in this study supported that the Smiley Face Assessment Scale is a reliable instrument to utilize for the participants of Camp Koinonia (16 out of 17 correlations of this study were proved to be significant at the 0.01 level, 2-tailed).