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Jan 4, 2021 · Results indicated that rater effects had a minimal impact on the predictive validity of ACES-SF-T scores for state achievement tests, but at the individual level, rater effects could lead to starkly different conclusions about students’ academic, social, and behavioral functioning.
- Christopher J. Anthony, Kara M. Styck, Erin Cooke, Justin R. Martel, Katherine E. Frye
- 2021
- Uses of Behavior Rating Scales
- Types of Behavior Rating Scales
- Widely Used Behavior Rating Scales
The most common use of behavior rating scales is in the diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders. The content of behavior rating scales often conforms to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnostic criteria, though it often differs in the way the symptoms are quantified as well as in the way the symptoms are combined....
Many of the newer behavior rating scales use a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to the assessment of behavior. For example, many scales include observer/informant and self-report forms. In addition, clinicians can choose from global scales that assess multiple domains of functioning or scales that focus on a specific dimension of behavior.
There are many different behavior rating scales available to clinicians. The most commonly used scales are the Achenbach Scales, the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC-2), the Connors instruments, the Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale (ADDES), the ADD-H Comprehensive Teacher Rating Scale (ACTeRS), the ADHD Rating Scale-IV, the...
Mar 9, 2023 · Psychologists seek to establish rating ‘scales’ as a scientific method by means of psychometric modelling—statistical analyses that scrutinise rating data for their utility to discriminate well and consistently between cases (reliability) and in ways considered important (validity).
- Jana Uher
- 09 March 2023
- 2
- 17, Issue5
Oct 30, 2020 · Behavior rating scales represent one of the most commonly used types of assessments in school psychology. Yet, they suffer from a fundamental limitation – they are an indirect methodology...
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Our study evaluated whether behavior rating scales, one of the most popular assessment approaches in school psychology, were adversely affected by rater effects, which refer to the
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Jul 6, 2022 · Although we identified 46 studies that provided information related to validity and reliability evidence for an ABA-based assessment, a key finding from our study is the misalignment between the assessments reported by behavior analysis professionals (Padilla, 2020) and the number of published validity and/or reliability studies in the literature.
