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Direct linkGarcia, Allen G.; Lambert, Matthew C.; Epstein, Michael H.; Cullinan, Douglas – School Mental Health, 2019
The present study examined the measurement properties of the Emotional and Behavioral Screener (EBS), a universal screening instrument which identifies students presenting with emotional and behavioral problems. The primary research questions sought to examine the degree to which the EBS item responses fit the Rasch model through evaluating fit of…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Identification, Behavior Rating Scales, Emotional Disturbances
Nordness, Philip D.; Epstein, Michael H.; Cullinan, Douglas; Pierce, Corey D. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
The Emotional and Behavioral Screener (EBS) is a universal screening instrument designed to identify students whose excessive problem behaviors put them at risk of the education disability category of emotional disturbance (ED). This article reports findings from three studies that address the reliability and validity of the EBS. Studies 1 and 2…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Disability Identification, Behavior Problems, At Risk Students
Cress, Cynthia; Lambert, Matthew C.; Epstein, Michael H. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Strength-based assessment of behaviors in preschool children provides evidence of emotional and behavioral skills in children, rather than focusing primarily on weaknesses identified by deficit-based assessments. The Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scales (PreBERS) is a normative assessment of emotional and behavioral strengths in…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Behavior Rating Scales
Cress, Cynthia J.; Lambert, Matthew C.; Epstein, Michael H. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2014
The Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale (PreBERS) is an assessment of emotional and behavioral strengths in preschoolers with well-established reliability and validity for educational and clinical application in children with and without disabilities. The present study provides further evidence of psychometric rigor for items and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Rating Scales, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Cullinan, Douglas; Epstein, Michael H. – Preventing School Failure, 2013
This article describes the Emotional and Behavioral Screener, a brief universal screening procedure designed to help identify students whose emotional and behavioral functioning puts them at risk for future serious problems, including identification in the emotional disturbance category. Development of the screener drew on items and normative…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Test Construction, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Cress, Cynthia J.; Epstein, Michael H.; Synhorst, Lori – Exceptionality, 2010
This article reports three studies that evaluated the test-retest and inter-rater reliability of the "Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale" (PreBERS) (Epstein & Synhorst, 2009). First, teachers rated 63 children receiving school services for disability on the PreBERS, with two ratings one month apart. Second,…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Disabilities, Preschool Children, Rating Scales
