| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 98 === The purposes of this study was to develop a test of measuring advanced ability of theory of mind, and to investigate the advanced ability of theory of mind (AATM) for mild autism in elementary school, who were diagnosed as high-functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome.
The instrument having developed in this study was a standardized test, which consisted of three parts, second-order false belief, telling a lie from a joke, and recognition of faux pas. In a sample of 160 participants, the content validity was established with professional educators, data were analyzed using item analysis, and the construct validity was established with factor analysis. The coefficient Cronbach α was found to vary among the test from .632 to .857, while spilt-half coefficient varied from .520 to .833.
Regarding the advanced ability of theory of mind for mild autism in elementary school, the 65 participants were 3rd to 6th grade children with mild autism. The data were analysis with descriptive and independence-t test. The results of this study indicated that: (1) the score was low on telling a lie from a joke and second-order false belief, but is high on recognition of faux pas; (2) 5th and 6th grader with mild autism performed better on whole test of AATM than 3rd and 4th grader with mild autism, but there were not difference on second-order false belief; (3) the performances on AATM of students with Asperger Syndrome did better than performances of students with high-functioning autism overall.
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