Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Teacher–Child Rating Scale (T-CRS) is a brief, teacher-completed checklist that assesses children’s social-emotional and behavioral adjustment in school. It focuses on skills that support learning and positive classroom participation, such as attention, behavior regulation, and peer social skills. The current version, T-CRS 3.1, is designed for students from pre-K through grade 5 and can be completed in a few minutes.
The T-CRS provides a school adjustment composite score and seven subscale scores, offering insight into areas like task orientation, self-regulation, and social interaction. It can be used for screening, progress monitoring, and program evaluation, helping educators track student growth and inform interventions.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
32 items
Qualifications
Level B or C
Access and Use
Price
Free
Open Access
Yes
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Hightower, A. D., Work, W. C., Cowen, E. L., Lotyczewski, B. S., Spinell, A. P., Guare, J. C., & Rohrbeck, C. A. (1986). The Teacher-Child Rating Scale: A Brief Objective Measure of Elementary Children’s School Problem Behaviors and Competencies. School Psychology Review, 15(3), 393–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/02796015.1986.12085242
Item Type
Likert
