Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
Assesses problem behaviors (acting‐out, shy/anxious behavior, learning problems), and social competencies (frustration tolerance, peer social skills, assertive social skills, task orientation) in the school context.
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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
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Child Rating Scale (CRS): Rule Compliance/Acting Out Anxiety/Withdrawal ; Peer Social Skills School Interest ; Parent-Child Rating Scale (P-CRS): ; Negative Peer Social Relations ; Positive Peer Social Relations ; Task Orientation ; Emotional Sensitivity/Anxiety Self-Reliance ; Frustration Tolerance Positive Disposition ; Teacher-Child Rating Scale (T-CRS): ; Task Orientation ; Behavior Control ; Assertiveness ; Peer Social Skills
Respondent
Parent,
Teacher,
Other
Administration Information
Length
24-39 items; 15-20 minutes, dependent on the version
Access and Use
Developer
A. D. Hightower, E. L. Cowen, P. Spinell, B. S. Lotyczewski, J. C. Guare, C. A. Rohrbeck, & L. P. Brown
Setting
Classroom,
Afterschool
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Hightower, A. D. (1986). The teacher‐child rating scale: A brief objective measure of elementary children’s
school problem behaviors and competencies. School Psychology Review, 15, 393‐409.
Hightower, A. D., Cowen, E. L., Spinell, A. P., & Lotyczewski, B. S. (1987). The Child Rating Scale: The
development of a socioemotional self‐rating scale for elementary school children. School Psychology Review,
16, 239‐255.
