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The Current Status of Peer Assessment Techniques and Sociometric Methods
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Bukowski, William M.; Castellanos, Melisa; Persram, Ryan J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017
Current issues in the use of peer assessment techniques and sociometric methods are discussed. Attention is paid to the contributions of the four articles in this volume. Together these contributions point to the continual level of change and progress in these techniques. They also show that the paradigm underlying these methods has been unchanged…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Peer Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Development
Stability of Sociometric Categories.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Bukowski, William M.; Haselager, Gerbert J. T. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Reviews the empirical literature on the stability of sociometric categories and discusses four conceptual issues related to the stability of sociometric status. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Influences, Literature Reviews, Measurement Objectives
Conceptualizing and Measuring Peer Acceptance and Rejection.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Bukowski, William M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Introduces the basic ideas of Jacob Moreno's (1934) historical model of sociometric judgment and discusses how developmental psychologists have used this model in child development research. Traces the development of sociometric techniques to study children's peer relations, and notes the limitations of contemporary sociometric techniques. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Models, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship
Using Rating Scale and Nomination Techniques to Measure Friendship and Popularity.
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Bukowski, William M.; And Others – Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1994
Studied the associations between measures of friendship and popularity derived from nomination and rating scales procedures with a sample of school-age and early adolescent boys and girls. Found that each of these techniques can provide parallel measures of popularity (sociometric preference) and friendship (whether the child is participating in a…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship
Pages from a Sociometric Notebook: An Analysis of Nomination and Rating Scale Measures of Acceptance, Rejection, and Social Preference.
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Bukowski, William M.; Sippola, Lorrie; Hoza, Betsy; Newcomb, Andrew F. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Provides a conceptual and empirical analysis of the associations between the fundamental sociometric dimensions of acceptance, rejection, and social preference. Examines whether nomination and rating scale measures index the same constructs. Notes that sociometric ratings measure social preference, but can also yield indicators of acceptance and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Relationship, Measurement Objectives
The Peer Ecology of Popularity: The Network Embeddedness of a Child's Friend Predicts the Child's Subsequent Popularity.
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Sabongui, Amir Georges; Bukowski, William M.; Newcomb, Andrew F. – New Directions for Child Development, 1998
Presents a conceptual framework to guide understanding of the peer network. Uses this network approach to study changes in younger adolescents' popularity over a six-month period. Reports that changes in popularity are related to the child's initial level of aggression, observable prominence, and the popularity of the child's best friend.…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Longitudinal Studies, Measurement Techniques
Developmental Profiles of Peer Social Preference over the Course of Elementary School: Associations with Trajectories of Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior.
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Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M.; Doyle, Anna Beth; Markiewicz, Dorothy – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Used new longitudinal clustering technique to identify and compare groups of children with distinct longitudinal profiles of peer social preference during elementary school. Identified a stable popular group, stable average group, and unpopular group, all with decreasing social preference. Groups showed overlap over time with closest corresponding…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis