This compendium, a deliverable for "Assessments for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning with Preschool/Elementary-School Children," focuses on tools to assess the social and emotional learning (SEL) of preschool and elementary school students (i.e., five- to ten-year-olds), along with aspects of the contexts in which they learn and…

Used aggregate ratings of teacher behavior as data for a multitrait-multimethod validity analysis. Scaled ratings using Rasch latent trait scaling model and traditional scaling techniques. Compared Rasch-scaled multitrait-multimethod matrix to the traditionally scaled multitrait-multimethod matrix. Results showed Rasch scaling resulted in higher…

Study of 112 grade 4 and 6 children reveals that girls are less likely than boys to underrate their abilities assessed by test scores, but more likely to underrate teacher assessments of competence. Teachers rate boys who underrate themselves lower than they do boys who overrate themselves, but do the reverse for girls. (Author/BJV)