Comparability of the Social Skills Rating System to the Social Skills Improvement System: Content and Psychometric Comparisons Across Elementary and Secondary Age Levels
Comparability of the Social Skills Rating System to the Social Skills Improvement System: Content and Psychometric Comparisons Across Elementary and Secondary Age Levels
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10.1037/a0022662
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
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Cook, Clayton R.
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作者：
Gresham, Frank M.;Elliott, Stephen N.;Cook, Clayton R.
这项研究比较了社会技能评级系统（SSRS;格雷欣& Elliott，1990）与SSRS的修订版，现在称为社会技能改进系统评级量表（SSIS-RS;格雷欣& Elliott，2008），在三个评分员（教师，家长和学生）为小学和中学年龄的学生。这两个工具的可比性的详细比较以前没有报告，被认为是重要的，因为在许多外部资助的研究和全国各地的学区的SSRS的频繁使用。这两种工具之间的比较集中在关键的可靠性和有效性估计的评级量表的三个评分员（教师，家长和学生）使用的形式为小学和中学年龄的学生。正如假设的那样，这两种工具有很高的内部一致性估计和适度高的有效性指数的总得分的社会技能和问题行为量表。信度比较显示SSIS-RS在内部一致性估计方面上级SSRS。有效性估计揭示了预期的收敛关系，在两种工具的所有形式的各种常见分量表中始终发现最强的关系。作者得出结论，SSIS-RS为评估儿童和青少年社会行为的研究人员和从业人员提供了更广泛的关键社会行为概念，并在使用SSIS-RS时获得了优于SSRS的心理测量上级评估结果。未来的研究SSIS-RS也确定和背景下的多层干预系统。
This study compared the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS; Gresham & Elliott, 1990) with the revision of the SSRS, now called the Social Skills Improvement System-Rating Scales (SSIS-RS; Gresham & Elliott, 2008), across three raters (teacher, parent, and student) for elementary- and secondary-aged students. A detailed comparison of these two instruments' comparability has not been previously reported and was considered important because of the frequent use of the SSRS in many externally funded research studies and school districts across the country. Comparisons between the two instruments focused on key reliability and validity estimates across the rating scales for three raters (teacher, parent, and student) using forms for elementary- and secondary-aged students. As hypothesized, the two instruments had high internal consistency estimates and moderately high validity indices for total scores for both social skills and problem behavior scales. The reliability comparisons revealed the SSIS-RS was superior to the SSRS with regard to internal consistency estimates. The validity estimates revealed expected convergent relationships with the strongest relationships consistently found among the various common subscales across all forms of the two instruments. The authors concluded that the SSIS-RS offers researchers and practitioners assessing social behavior of children and youth a broader conceptualization of key social behaviors and psychometrically superior assessment results when using the SSIS-RS over the SSRS. Future research on the SSIS-RS is also identified and contextualized within a multitiered intervention system.