The test-retest reliability of a revised version of the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS)

The original version of the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) was published by Parsell and Bligh in [1999]. The only aspect of reliability considered by the authors was the internal consistency. A revised version for use with undergraduate students was published in 2005 (McFadyen et al., [2005]). That paper also reported internal consistency of the revised version. Subsequently a sample from one professional group (n = 65) was used to assess test-retest reliability, over a one week period, of each of the 19 items and of the sub-scale totals, using Weighted Kappa and the intra-class correlation (ICC) respectively, and these results are reported in the present paper. The test-retest reliability of the individual items using Weighted Kappa was satisfactory, with the exception of two items (Items 11 and 12). The ICC results for the sub-scale totals were all in excess of 0.60 with the exception of sub-scale two. This revised version of RIPLS would appear to have good reliability in three of its sub-scales but further research, with larger samples, is required before the fourth sub-scale can be reliably assessed.