The Handball Cognitive Assessment instrument for the Year 4 Physical Education (PE) subject is developed with the aim to assess the capabilities of the cognitive domain for the category of handball attack-play in regard to knowledge and understanding. In ensuring the instrument developed is dependable and suitable for use, this study was conducted to analyze and investigate empirical evidence on the validity and reliability of the instrument by using the Rasch analysis model. The Handball Cognitive Assessment instrument consists of twenty-five items that have been piloted by 51 Year 5 primary school students. The WINSTEPS programme was utilized to conduct the Rasch model analysis to obtain the validity and reliability of the instrument. The test of unidimensionality for the twenty-five items has a measured variance of 25.4% and all items exceeded the minimum of 20.0% as required by the Rasch model. The reliability index of the items is 0.83 and the reliability index of the respondents .....

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