Engaging Parents And Families To Support The Recovery Of Districts And Schools
Category: Families and Communities
The Challenging Situations Task (CST) is designed to assess a child's affective and behavioral responses when presented with hypothetical peer situations. The design of this instrument consists of the presentation of pictures of a particular situations, accompanied by verbal descriptions. Children are then prompted to indicate how they feel about the situation and asked to choose from four emotion choices using schematic drawings.
Content
Topics
Grades
Pre-Kindergarten
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
3 items
Administration
Paper
Timed
No
Access and Use
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Denham, S. A. et al. (2014). "How would you feel? What would you do?: Development and underpinnings of preschoolers' social information processing. Journal of Research in Child Education, 28(2), 182-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2014.883558
Wenz-Gross, M. W., Yoo, Y., Upshur, C. C., & Gambino, A. J. (2018). Pathways to kindergarten readiness: The roles of second step early learning curriculum and social emotional, executive functioning, preschool academic and task behavior skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01886
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
