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Classroom Contexts as the Framework for Assessing Social-Emotional Adjustment: A National Study in Trinidad and Tobago
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Mcdermott, Paul A.; Watkins, Marley W.; Drogalis, Anna Rhoad; Chao, Jessica L.; Worrell, Frank C.; Hall, Tracey E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
Contextually based assessments reveal the circumstances accompanying maladjustment (the when, where, and with whom) and supply clues to the motivations underpinning problem behaviors. The Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents (ASCA) is a teacher rating scale composed of indicators describing behavior in 24 classroom situational contexts.…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Style
Interrater Agreement for Syndromic Profile Classifications on the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents.
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Canivez, Gary L.; Watkins, Marley W. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2002
Teaching professionals (n=29) who shared the same classroom for a minimum of one hour per day provided independent ratings of the same child (ages 7-17) on the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents (ASCA). Results indicated that statistically significant interrater agreement was achieved across all 22 syndromic profile classification…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment
National Standardization of Uniform Multisituational Measures of Child and Adolescent Behavior Pathology.
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McDermott, Paul A. – Psychological Assessment, 1993
Design, nationwide standardization, and validation of the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents are presented, using a norm sample of 1,400 5- through 17-year-olds, with an additional 1,418 in supplementary samples. Eight reliable and distinct syndromes are recognized, six of which are generalizable across age, gender, and ethnicity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Disorders, Children