Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Caregiver Interaction Scale (CIS) consists of 26 items usually divided into 4 subscales. Some researchers have conducted factor analyses on the 26 items and have found different subscales (e.g., Whitebook, Howes, & Phillips, 1989). Observers are asked to rate the extent to which 26 items are characteristic of the childcare provider whom they are observing. Items are scored on a 4‐point scale from (1) Not at all characteristic to (4) Very much characteristic of the child care provider. The measure usually contains the following subscales: Sensitivity (10 items), Harshness (8 items), Detachment (4 items), Permissiveness (4 items) “To rate the emotional tone, discipline style, and responsiveness of teachers and caregivers in a classroom. The items focus on the emotional tone and responsiveness of the caregiver’s interactions with children. The scale does not address issues of curriculum or other classroom management issues (such as grouping or flow of activities)” (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 78).
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten
Keywords
Classroom Emotional Environment ; SEL‐Supportive Environments
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
26 items
Administration
Computer,
Paper
Access and Use
Developer
CASEL
Price
Online Scoring- $66 for 3 tests and technical manual, $22 per additional test
Software Scoring- $191 for 10 tests, technical manual, and software manual
Mail-in Scoring- $188 for technical manual, 25 reusable test booklets, 10 basic reports
Hand Scoring- $105 for technical manual, 5 reusable test booklets, 5 answer sheets, 5 profile sheets.
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Setting
Other
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Jaeger, E. and Funk, S. (2001). The Philadelphia Child Care Quality Study: An Examination of Quality in Selected Early Education and Care Settings. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University.
Layzer (1993) found correlation coefficients of .43 to .67 between
the CIS and several other measures of childcare quality (i.e., Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), Assessment Profile for Early Childhood Programs, Description of Preschool Practices. However, the authors did not expect large coefficients because the CIS focuses more narrowly on an aspect of teacher behavior than the other observation measures.
