Engaging Parents And Families To Support The Recovery Of Districts And Schools
Category: Families and Communities
The Caregiver Interaction Scale (CIS) is an instrument that measures parent and caregiver behaviors and interactions with children. The instrument consists of 26 items focused on sensitivity, harshness, detachment, and permissiveness. CIS was created in 1989 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and used in the evaluation of North Carolina’s Smart Start Initiative.
Access and Use
Price
Free: https://fpg.unc.edu/sites/fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/assessments-and-instruments/SmartStart_Tool6_CIS.pdf
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Eckhardt, A. G., & Egert, F. (2018). Differences in childcare quality–a matter of personality traits, socialization goals and pre-service curriculum? Early Child Development and Care, 188(12), 1726-1737. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2016.1278372
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References
Colwell, N., Gordon, R. A., Fujimoto, K., Kaestner, R., & Korenman, S. (2013). New evidence on the validity of the Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale: Results from the early childhood longitudinal study-birth cohort. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28(2), 218-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.12.004
