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The Behavior Rating Profile
Rating scale for teahcer, student and parents. Student rates self on home heaviors and situations, school behaviors and interpersonal skills and relationships. Teacher rates child on behaviors observed at school. Parents rate child on behavior at home. Also includes an area for peer input regarding the desire to interact with other students. -
Waksman Social Skills Rating Scale (WSSRS)
Compares target child with a normative sample for identification/classification.Two behavior domains: aggressive and passive. Aggressive behaviors include: insulting others, threatening and failing to share property. Passive domain behaviors include avoiding looking others in the eye, difficulty saying no and appearing tense. -
Social Skills Rating System (SSRS)
Focuses on social behaviors relevant to successful interpersonal and academic functioning. Can be used with children ages preschool through high school. The scale examines the frequency of social skills in the areas of cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. Teacher and parent forms also include problem behaviors such as externalizing, internalizing, and hyperactivity as well as academic competence. -
Cultural Mismatch Whirlpools
Many African American and Hispanic children show emotion when speaking, using a different voice tone, pitch, and quality than found in children from other cultures. These students demonstrate a high energy level that may be seen as aggressive or disruptive in a typical classroom. -
Connor's Teacher Rating Scale
Used for children ages 3-17 and for both parents and teachers. The scale provides a comparison of the child to levels of appropriate normative groups of children. -
Walker and McConnell's Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment
Two versions: elementary and adolescent.
Elementary Version: peer-related scale (interpersonal social skills - teacher preferred and per-preferred social behavior), adaptive behaivor for success in the classroom (school adjustment).
Adolescent Version: self control, peer relations, school adjustment, and empathy.
Scale relies on teacher ratings of frequency of behaviors occuring. -
Whirlpool Phenomenon
The mismatch between teaching practices and cognitive styles. Cognitive style mismatch leads to poor performance, lowered self-esteem, and continued attemps to please the instructor or refusal to complete a task. -
Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale (BERS)
Focuses on student's behavioral and emotional strengths in 5 domains: 1. interpersonal strengths, 2. family involvement, 3. intrapersonal strengths, 4. school functioning and 5. affective strengths. -
Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC)
Normed on a national sample of children. For children ages 2-18. Five Components: 1. self report scale of child's emotions and self-perceptions, 2. parent rating scale, 3. teacher rating scale, 4. a structured developmental history and 5. a form for classroom observation. Assesses externalizing problems such as aggression, hyperactivity or internalizing problems such as anxiety, depression, etc.