PART I REPLICATED RESEARCH CONCERNING TEACHER ATTITUDES TOWARD ADMINISTRATORS. PREVIOUS FINDINGS INDICATED TEACHERS IN SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEMS HAD A STRONGER SENSE OF SUPERINTENDENT LEADERSHIP THAN DID TEACHERS IN LARGE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, SUPERINTENDENTS RESPONDED WITH OPPOSITE PERCEPTION IN SELF-ANALYSIS TESTS. THE REPLICATION RECOMMENDED THAT…

The study compared the behavior of 61 preschool autistic children with that of 35 retarded children matched for mental age and 30 normal children matched for chronological age. Ss were rated on a 67 item Behavior Observation Scale during three free play sessions. Among findings were that six behaviors (grimace/gesticulation, echolalic speech,…

Discovery of the underlying dimensions of teachers' observations of discrete, overt problem behaviors, and determination of the extent to which these dimensions of problem behavior are related to other indices of adaptation to school among Anglo-, Negro-, and Mexican-American children are the research objectives. Teacher nomination forms contained…

The difficulties in the assessment of severely handicapped children are described. Competencies for examiners and desirable test characteristics are listed. A table presents descriptive information on tests most frequently used in measuring the behavioral repertoires of severely handicapped children. The Developmental Activities Screening…

Described are the development and field testing of the Revised 1977 Behavior Checklist, one component of a multidisciplinary batter to assess social and emotional dysfunction in populations of 4- and 5-year-old children entering kindergarten. The total screening battery is outlined and development of the 1976 Pilot Version of the Behavior…

This study described the initial development of a Committee Role Rating Scale (CRRS) and a Conference Role Semantic Differential (CRSD) as measures of these specific roles common to administrators at all educational levels. Although the CRRS showed general construct validity, the small amount of common variance accounted for by the factors and the…

This paper deals with the technical development of an attitude-scale technique and with some of the substantive results obtained using this technique. The first section describes the methodological research and the most recent version of the attitude toward mental illness scale. A total of six new types of attitude items were generated from…

This document is a manual of instruction on how to administer the Child Behavior Survey Instrument (CBSI). This manual also presents definitions of the categories used to define the nature of the observed child's behavior. The CBSI provides a scheme for observing the classroom behavior of children along nine major categories: (1) orientation, (2)…

Provided is a questionnaire in the form of a rating scale to determine the degree to which teachers believe 316 characteristics (called behavioral descriptors) are typical of gifted children. Given is a definition of giftedness which includes capability of high performance in areas such as general intellectual ability and creative thinking, and…

The Flint Infant Security Scale measures an infant's behavior in order to establish the child's ability to accept dependence upon their caretaker and to put forth effort when the occasion calls for it. Both these aspects of behavior are reflections of the child's sense of security and feeling of self-worth. The Scale, consisting of the Manual and…

This instrument contains 90 items and is used by students in COLAMDA courses to rate their instructor. Instructors are rated on a scale which ranges from complete agreement with an item to complete disagreement. The statements about the teacher which the students rate fall into five categories: 1) respect; 2) favortism; 3)…

The usefulness of the sets of cases developed in a previous technical report are examined as potential tests of leadership. Each set of cases generates, from a single subject, a number of scores which can be logically derived and which have substantial face validity. The intercorrelations among the scores, their split half reliability, and the…

The report develops a method of driver performance measurement. Suitability or unsuitability (potential hazard and interference with other traffic) of driving behavior patterns in changing traffic situations is rated by pairs of carefully trained observer/raters. In 2 studies, new groups with driver education teaching background were trained as…

This study describes the development of a technique to help the pre-school teacher create an environment in which a large group of children can learn and to be an effective mediator between the environment and the interests and abilities of each child. Teachers were trained to rate children in terms of observational categories, to help them…

A copy and description of the School Adjustment Scale are provided. The scale was constructed to be used by teachers to rate the behavior of elementary school children as to (1) Social Traits, (2) Motives, and (3) Personal Adjustment. This is a 25-item, multiple-choice rating scale. (DB)