The goals of early childhood educators are commonly expressed in terms of social and intellectual development. The Coping Ananlysis Schedule for Education Settings (CASES) is designed to measure social development. Its use in programs designed to increase social skills and coping ability in the school environment is described. The presentation will include discussion of performance criteria, CASES categories, relationships of CASES categories to dimensions of personality derived from ego theory, CASES Styles reflecting personality types, methods of training observers, observer reliability, data gathering procedures, data processing, results of validity studies, and program evaluation using CASES behavior style coefficients as dependent variables. (Author)