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Pierce, Corey D.; Epstein, Michael H.; Wood, Matthew D. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2023
Strength-based assessment has achieved acceptance from educational, mental health, and social service professionals as a means to measuring emotional and behavioral strengths of children. Several standardized, norm-referenced tests have been developed to assess these strengths; however, the primary mode of assessment is via informal interviews of…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Content Validity, Psychometrics, Mental Health
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Lambert, Matthew C.; Sinclair, James; Martin, Jodie R.; Epstein, Michael H. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2023
Identifying student strengths is central to transition planning. However, school personnel use few assessments that operationalize behavioral and emotional strengths, and the psychometric functioning of those measures have not been established with transition-age students. In this two-part study, we used a national sample of transition-age…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Lambert, Matthew C.; January, Stacy-Ann A.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Epstein, Michael H.; Martin, Jodie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
The present study investigated evidence of the construct validity of scores from the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale (BERS-3), which is a multi-informant assessment designed to measure the behavioral and emotional strengths of school-aged youth. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the degree to which BERS-3 scores differed between…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Test Validity, Construct Validity, Student Behavior